‘It’s the Wild West’: How AI is creating new frontiers for crime in Canada

VANCOUVER — 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. VANCOUVER — 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…