YOUR SOCIAL MEDIA POSTS COULD FUEL THE NEXT AI SCAM

ARLINGTON, Texas, Nov. 2 -- The University of Texas at Arlington issued the following news release:

Picture this: You post photos online from a trip to Brazil. The next day, an email arrives from the hotel where you stayed, thanking you for your visit and offering a special discount on your next stay. The email references your recent trip, the hotel's name looks right and the link looks legitimate.

But the hotel never sent it. An AI model generated the email after scraping details from your vacation posts.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Arlington have shown that widely available AI tools can gather details from people's public social media posts and use them to quickly generate highly personalized scam emails by targeting larg...