Generative AI and large language models have been around for years. But what happens when you put a simple bot interface on top of it and throw it open to the public, as OpenAI did in November 2023?

The potential of generative AI cannot be underestimated. ChatGPT can produce compelling text and deceive anyone that it was written by a human. But it can also work with images (multimodal technology) and generate code. Ever since its capabilities were realized, it has sparked doomsday predictions about job losses, controlling the human race and threat actors leveraging its potential for cyberattacks.

In fact, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak told the BBC that AI will make scams even more convincing and deepfakes will be harder to detect. Countries such as Italy have prohibited the use of ChatGPT.