The introduction of AI has brought about a significant boom for businesses all around the world. AI, machine learning, and other technological advancements are now widely used in businesses to manage their operations and processes. However, many organisations abuse AI, and the results are disastrous. The most common abuses of AI and the repercussions we will experience in 2022 are listed in this article.
Deepfakes: The recently popular DeepNude nudie app is the most recent example of AI-generated deepfakes being used to create compromising images of unaware women. These images have the potential to humiliate, harass, frighten, and silence women.
DoS (denial of service) attacks
Although they are nothing new, they are becoming increasingly intricate. It can be difficult to thwart DoS attacks that are AI-driven and have human-like traits. A DoS attack is a type of cyber-attack in which a cybercriminal forbids authorised users from using a networked system, service, website, or application.
Attacks using artificial intelligence in spear-phishing offer a significant cybersecurity risk. Due to machine learning (ML) algorithms that recognise patterns in datasets, spear-phishing assaults can now be produced using context-specific emails.
Attacks by terrorists: Since many AI tools are open-source libraries, anyone can easily use them. As a result, technologies for image recognition, facial recognition, etc. could quickly get in touch with a dreaded terrorist organisation that can reasonably launch a terror assault.
Swarm attacks: These types of attacks use swarm-based bots and a technique known as “Swarm intelligence.” Cybercriminals will switch out botnets for “Hivenets,” which are collections of AI-compromised devices.
