Malicious intent
Generating Harms - Generative AI's impact and paths forwards
Electronic Privacy Information Centre (2023)
Using AI systems to gain a personal advantage over others such as through cheating, fraud, scams, blackmail or targeted manipulation of beliefs or behavior. Examples include AI-facilitated plagiarism for research or education, impersonating a trusted or fake individual for illegitimate financial benefit, or creating humiliating or sexual imagery.
"A frequent malicious use case of generative AI to harm, humiliate, or sexualize another person involves generating deepfakes of nonconsensual sexual imagery or videos."(p. 11)
Part of Harassment, Impersonation, and Extortion
Other risks from Electronic Privacy Information Centre (2023) (21)
Information Manipulation
4.1 Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scaleInformation Manipulation > Scams
4.3 Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulationInformation Manipulation > Disinformation
4.1 Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scaleInformation Manipulation > Misinformation
3.1 False or misleading informationInformation Manipulation > Security
4.2 Cyberattacks, weapon development or use, and mass harmInformation Manipulation > Clickbait and feeding the surveillance advertising ecosystem
3.2 Pollution of information ecosystem and loss of consensus reality