Electric Sheep on the Pastures of Disinformation and Targeted Phishing Campaigns: The Security Implications of ChatGPT

This article explores the potential for the criminal abuse and hybrid-warfare weaponization of ChatGPT technology. The focus is placed on the opportunities for the possible utilization of such tools by malign actors who engage in the orchestration and running of targeted phishing campaigns or who design, produce and propagate disinformation. The author raises the question about the ethical, moral and legal implications of similar technologies and opens the discussion on the responsibility of technology developers for the abuse of their products and on the topic of the IT industry governance.