How tech is creating new frontiers for crime

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A man uses a computer keyboard in Toronto in this Sunday, Oct. 9, 2023 photo illustration. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Graeme Roy Canadian police patrolling corners of the dark web are well aware of the commonly nefarious ways criminals exploit artificial intelligence. There’s deepfake pornography. Voice impersonation. Romance scams that turn into financial fraud. But recently there’s been a new twist — criminals offering to “jailbreak” the very algorithms that form the architecture of AI’s large language models, or LLMs, tearing down their safeguards so they can be retasked for criminal purposes. Call it tech support for cybercriminals. “There are also these...