While some right-thinking soul may conclude that LoveGPT is an expression of love for the most popular chatbots of the latest generation, the rest will rightly imagine that it is not. and no, Nor is it a lucubration of a dystopian future., in the style of the one told by the brilliant Spike Jonze in the dystopian and essential Her, in which human beings and artificial intelligence can “fall in love”. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve seen that movie and it still gives me goosebumps when I consider it.

No, LoveGPT, which obviously born as a term from the union of love and GPT, the OpenAI text generative model, is the name chosen by cybersecurity company Avast to identify a new (albeit extremely predictable) scam scheme that once again directly attacks the aspirations of many people who want to find a partner to create a common future. I know that this topic can be approached with humor, and what’s more, I admit that I originally thought about it, but on the other hand, to take advantage of such a situation is something really threatening.

According to research conducted by LoveGPT, it reproduces a technique that has been around for some time in this type of service and is based on use fake profiles to attract usersinitially to attempt to obtain personal information, but may later evolve to trick those individuals into making money transfers, paying for online purchases, etc.

What sets LoveGPT apart from many other campaigns and events in this sense is that, as a general rule, the conversations between the victim and the perpetrator tend to be quite synthetic, because in many cases the impersonators have problems communicating both in their victim’s native language and in English, which makes it easier for them to identification as such. However, using services like GPT it adds a naturalness (and therefore credibility) to conversations that few have seen before in this type of event.

After its investigation, Avast discovered the presence of LoveGPT in the following online dating services:

• Ashley Madison
• Badoo
• bumble
• craigslist
• DuyenSo
• Facebook dating site
• like you.vn
• MeetMe
• OkCupid
• Plenty of Fish (POF)
• Marked
• Tinder
• Zoosk

From Avast They recommend trusting, but not too much, which they complement with verification whenever possible; Stay alert for any suspicious signs (such as a request for personal information) and make security a priority. I completely agree with these points, but I also think it is very important to remember that in these circumstances, many people experience a cognitive bias that compromises them, because the desire to believe that what they experience is true prevents the reservations that they would experience objectively observing the situation.

More information: Avast