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OpenAI helps spammers plaster 80,000 sites with messages that bypassed filters
Company didn’t notice its chatbot was being abused for (at least) 4 months.
The spam blast is the work of AkiraBot—a framework that automates the sending of messages in large quantities to promote shady search optimization services to small- and medium-size websites. AkiraBot worked by assigning the following role to OpenAI’s chat API using the model gpt-4o-mini: “You are a helpful assistant that generates marketing messages.” A prompt instructed the LLM to replace the variables with the site name provided at runtime. Dan Goodin is Senior Security Editor at Ars Technica, where he oversees coverage of malware, computer espionage, botnets, hardware hacking, encryption, and passwords.
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