Hackers hate AI slop even more than you

The complaint sounds trusted. “I’m disappointed that you’re working to integrate AI garbage into the site,” one angry person, who posted anonymously, said in an online message. “No one is asking for this – we want you to improve the site and stop charging for new features.”

Only this isn’t a normal internet user complaining about AI being forced into their favorite app. Instead, they complain about a cybercrime forum’s plans to introduce more generative AI. Like millions of others, low-level scammers, fraudsters, and hackers are resentful of AI intruding into their lives and the increasing posting of low-quality AI hoaxes in their online communities.

“People don’t like it,” says Ben Collier, a security researcher and lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. As part of a recent study of how low-level cybercriminals use AI, Collier and his fellow researchers found increasing resistance to the use of generative AI in underground cybercrime…