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TECH T@LK

Elon Musk to launch AI WhatsApp launches three new

platform ‘TruthGPT’ security tools to stop hackers

lon Musk on Monday revealed annihilate humans because we are an he popular messaging platform challenge that serves as an “invisi-
he is going to develop his own interesting part of the universe.” WhatsApp, recently unveiled a ble ping” from the server to a user’s
Eversion of an artificial intelli- He further said, “AI is more Tnew account verification fea- device, and a security token that is
gence chatbot, ‘TruthGPT’ during an dangerous than, say, mismanaged ture that will prevent viruses from locally stored on the device are all
interview with Tucker Carlson on Fox aircraft design or production main- affecting users’ accounts while it is introduced to achieve this, as per
News. tenance or bad car production in active on their mobile device. Mashable.
the sense that it has the potential, According to Mashable, the firm In order to identify possibly sus-
During an interaction with Carl- however, small one may regard that owned by Meta said in a statement, picious connections, the client must
probability, but it is not trivial; it has “mobile device malware is one of the submit the security token each time
son, the Twitter CEO shared the potential of civilizational destruc- most significant risks to the security it connects to the server. For its part,
why he wants an alternative to tion,” the Tesla CEO stated. and privacy of individuals today as it the security token is updated each
A few days ago, he also tweeted can take gain access to your mobile time an offline message is fetched
ChatGPT, an AI app developed about meeting with former US Pres- device despite permission from you from the server. When a client an-
by progressive programmers ident Barack Obama to warn of the and use your WhatsApp account to swers to an authentication challenge
dangers surrounding the software’s
send inappropriate messages.” The
from a different device, suggesting
that he initially helped fund. capabilities, and to encourage AI goal is to prevent attackers from tak- an unusual connection coming from
regulation. ing over victim accounts and stealing an attacker, the authentication chal-
Musk said, “I’m going to start The Tweet read, “I saw it hap- WhatsApp authentication creden- lenge is deemed to have failed. The
something which I call TruthGPT, pening from well before GPT-1, tials in order to send spam and false connection is subsequently blocked
or a maximum truth-seeking AI that which is why I tried to warn the pub- messages to other contacts while pos- as a result.
tries to understand the nature of the lic for years. The only one on one ing as the victim. If the client does not answer, the
universe. And I think this might be meeting I ever had with Obama as A cryptographic nonce to deter- operation is repeated “a few more
the best path to safety in the sense President I used not to promote Tes- mine whether a WhatsApp client is times,” and the connection is shut
that an AI that cares about under- la or SpaceX, but to encourage AI contacting the server to retrieve in- off if the consumer still does not re-
standing the universe is unlikely to regulation.” coming messages, an authentication spond. According to WhatsApp,

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