{"id":6153,"date":"2025-04-22T12:07:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/?p=6153"},"modified":"2025-11-27T11:22:36","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T10:22:36","slug":"what-is-ai-why-does-it-want-to-hurt-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/2025\/04\/what-is-ai-why-does-it-want-to-hurt-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What is AI? Why does it want to hurt me?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n

We hear a lot about AI. It\u2019s practically everywhere. In advertisements, in the news, in the media, on our phones and computers.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But what exactly is AI?<\/p>\n

There are many definitions, and even experts often disagree on what AI truly is. A widely accepted general description is this:
\u201cArtificial Intelligence (AI)<\/a> refers to machines’ ability to perform tasks that require human-like intelligence. These include reasoning, learning, planning, decision-making, problem-solving, perception, communication, and creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The simplest and most widely known form of AI isn\u2019t actually true artificial intelligence. According to the official terminology, these are called “generative AI.” This means that a neural network-based algorithm is fed with an enormous amount of data by developers, and when it receives a request, it tries to \u201cguess\u201d the most appropriate answer based on all that data.<\/p>\n

The response can be a simple text, but also a generated image. These are the solutions we encounter most often. Among the text-based tools, ChatGPT was the first globally well-known program that became mainstream.<\/p>\n

These are the programs we can talk to, that draw whatever we ask for, answer our questions, create music for us, or even turn a single photo of us into a nearly lifelike video.<\/p>\n

Basically, these algorithms are programmed for \u201cpositive thinking.\u201d<\/p>\n

They won\u2019t give us ethically questionable answers. They don\u2019t use profanity, don\u2019t respond to racist questions, don\u2019t discuss sexuality, and don\u2019t generate sexual or violent content\u2014neither in text nor in image. Of course, this applies only to open systems. For private purposes, unfortunately, it’s possible to set up versions without such restrictions.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s important to understand that these programs do not think!
They don\u2019t \u201cunderstand\u201d what we\u2019re asking\u2014they only interpret the input and, based on the massive amounts of data they\u2019ve been trained on, try to give us the most relevant answer.<\/p>\n

If we ask such a program to write a letter on a given topic, it first interprets the request, and then, without asking anything in return, gives us its best attempt. If we ask in Hungarian, it answers in Hungarian; if we ask in English, it answers in English; if in French, then French. The structures of different languages are so well integrated that it can respond in nearly perfect grammar in almost any language.<\/p>\n

And this is exactly the point\u2014where things can go very wrong!<\/p>\n

This is the point where language barriers disappear. The point where, at nearly zero cost, someone anywhere in the world can use a generative AI tool to communicate in the language of their intended victim. It could be a simple email\u2014but now, it can also be real, audible speech! These AI solutions can now generate not just text or images, but video and human-sounding voice, too.<\/p>\n

With their help, perfect human profiles can be created\u2014complete with photos, vacation videos, personal stories. Of course, this goes beyond free tools like ChatGPT\u2014you\u2019ll need a bit more knowledge, but it\u2019s knowledge that can be acquired in just a few weeks.<\/p>\n

It works so well that hundreds of fake accounts are created every day on Instagram\u2014accounts that aren\u2019t run by real people, but by AI-generated content.<\/p>\n

Beautiful, flawless men or women. Who have everything. Who constantly travel the world. Who take selfies and post their lives everywhere they go. Who message you. Who start talking to you. Who get to know you. Map you. Learn your patterns.<\/p>\n

And once they\u2019ve earned your trust, the scam begins.
Maybe it starts with asking for money\u2014and ends with full access to your bank account, draining it into an untraceable wallet that even the police can\u2019t recover.<\/p>\n

But it\u2019s not the AI doing this to you.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the AI gaining your trust.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not the AI stealing from you.<\/p>\n

Behind every scam, there is always a human. A person who uses generative AI simply as a tool. Just like you or I\u2014but instead of writing a thesis, they use it to scam you! Perfectly written emails. Flawless-sounding voice or video messages. Or maybe a heartbreaking story, ending with tears in a voice note asking you to send money because their little boy is sick and they can\u2019t afford medicine.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not AI you should be angry with.
And the developers who built these tools are not to blame either.<\/p>\n

What we\u2019re dealing with is simply crime.
Criminals who want to steal from you.
Criminals who use the latest technology against you.
Criminals who didn\u2019t study for years to master this\u2014just sat in front of a computer and, in a few weeks, learned enough to use generative AI to make you believe anything.<\/p>\n

Maybe the person attacking you isn\u2019t even of legal age.
Maybe they live on the other side of the world.
Or maybe\u2026 they\u2019re sitting in the office next door.<\/p>\n

AI can\u2019t think.
It doesn\u2019t know it\u2019s deceiving you, hurting you, robbing you.
It simply executes the command\u2026 given by a criminal.<\/p>\n

Zolt\u00e1n<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5976,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[248,303,161,236,242,222,227,219,475],"tags":[259,279,283,250,304,233,213,216,476],"class_list":["post-6153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-2","category-aibots","category-angol","category-online-awareness","category-online-security","category-safety-tips","category-scam","category-self-knowledge","category-zoltan-gecso","tag-connections","tag-digitalsecurity","tag-internetsafety","tag-ai-en","tag-aibots","tag-alertinsight-en","tag-danger","tag-hungary","tag-zoltan-gecso"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6155,"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6153\/revisions\/6155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alertinsight.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}