The Most IMMEDIATE Threat From AI - Sophisticated speAr phIshing

rule #1 you did not ask for it, dont click on it

This guy actually believes that phishing emails have bad grammar because of bad quality writing on the authors part! LOL ! It’s bad on purpose, as a marketing filter to qualify unsuspecting and low-mistrust people.
The AI phishing are just a complement, not a replacement.

imagine still using email in 2025

i think getting scammed is good actually

Self inflicted wound, deserved as well. Stop putting ads in ya videos and this ends easy. Devaluing Premium has consequences

Soon they’ll be calling with a family member’s voice from a foreign number. “I was just in a car crash and my phone smashed, I’m using a witness’s phone. Can you send money,” type thing. Sooo many people will be convinced. Crazy era! I don’t know how we get passed this cleanly to build the first true civilization.

Runescape story giving me stress about Diablo duping scams. I was such a good mark at 13.

Assume scam until proven otherwise. You may not like that mindset, but the utopian world does not exist. It's far better to try and minimize risk ahead of time, than to shout how awful it is afterwards. Bad people will always exist if people scream about it or not. Protect yourself, if you like having to or not. AI makes no difference. Phishing is the most absurd way for people to lose their crap.

The root cause and reason that scammers do this more and more often. Users being naive and trusting everything that lands in their email. So out of touch that they are stuck in their normalcy bias when the world has never been 'normal'; they just never look at the unpleasant.

These tactics would stop being used if users didn't keep falling for it. Yes people who scam people should be punished, but we can't ignore that the population is extremely lacking in sense or knowledge of risks. If we ignore half the picture there is no fix, because there will always be people leaning towards the current incentives structures. You want to change things, flip the incentives. Make a less naive and uninformed public. Make it far less likely that these scammers get away with it.

TLDR stop clicking random things in emails for cripes sake. This isn't a new issue, it's been around for decades. No one is immune to getting them. It doesn't matter if it looks official never sign in through a link and always confirm before responding to anything.

Never reuse passwords, never use short passwords with normal words, always use 2fa. 2fa doesn't fail, people fail and allow it to be bypassed. AI makes no difference if people start taking responsibility.

If you go to the pool section of twitch there is gonna be a lot of stream jacking, if you know what I mean

Lol yeah some of us have been here since your started ... and yes we a kinda old now .. i know i am

I found it hilarious to get spam messages like a whatsapp message that said "hey dad I need some money" when I don't have kids, I miss those type of scams unironically (haven't seen anything like it in years) I mostly just get phone calls where the other line doesn't respond and then I block the number, not sure what the point of those are.

The internet will eat itself. We will then return to the real world and be happier again lol

Signal boosting.

I totally disagree on your first point, its like saying we shouldn't have cars, coz cars make it easier for bank robbers to get away, if they were on foot, it wouldn't be that easy.

Ai is a tool, it can be used for good or bad, depends on who is using it.


That was regarding the first point, i will finish watching the video to comment on the rest.

Thanks for the explanation of how big crypto channels exist! I didn't understand until you said they hacked a legit channel and stripped it :3

So all these random ppl wanting to either be friends or sell me some avatar or art for my youtube channel on discord are not real???? lol... This is just the beginning...

💜 im sorry

Your voice reminds me of other channels, like Matt Berman, Wes Roth and the other dude I always mix up xD

Haven't watched the vid yet, but that thumbnail is pure perfection

I know you have your opinions on AI but I don’t think it’s all so doom and gloom. There’s many valid points brought up in the video but I think that the counter to AI will be AI. An AI that’s also trained on your online presence will be able to recognise a spear phishing attack that is based on your online presence so will be able to counter it. I don’t think that’s too outside the realm of possibility, I think soon we will all have an AI companion just as a necessary tool to sort through the AI generated content slop that we will soon be swamped with. There’s no reason why that AI won’t be able to fight phishing attacks on our behalf.

The real winner will be the big tech companies either way because they’ll also have all that data from your personal AI and that will be bought and sold.

i couldnt imagine being dumb enough to think phishing is the most immediate threat from ai. lmfao

I was almost fooled by this recently. I made an Amazon return to a local Staples store, and within 10 minutes, I had an email (appearing to be from Amazon) that said there was a problem with my recent return being the same item that I had purchased. It appeared to be from Amazon, even after checking the header, and I had to stop myself and check my return status on the actual Amazon app - which hadn't been updated yet. I just had to wait a bit (when the Amazon agent picked up the item) to find that there was never any problem. If I had not known that 1-I never opened the original box for the returned item and 2-that there was no way they could confirm already that it was not a correct item even if it wasn't, then I would have clicked on the links in the email. I am very smart about cyber attempts, and this one had me baffled about how it knew that I had dropped off the item only minutes prior to the email.

As someone who has at times forgotten they even had an email for 4 years, and only reads expected emails anyway, i am probably at low risk from this kind of thing.

i avoid phishing attacks by reading my email once per year

The image of the beast could be A.I. controlled by the Antichrist spirit. The technology is already live & active. It can instantly manipulate digital media, videos, radio streams, TV streams, & apps.

Shout out Runescape!

I actually hate that Ground News is paid for and that we are now in a time where even the truth is no longer free. Honestly wasn't as aware of our reality as I thought, though I recognized and accepted this fact a while a ago.

Why are we allowing this...

We upgrade security technology all the time, and yet humans have persistently stayed the most vulnerable. I don't understand how this is still real...

I'm seeing a lot of ads for these pokemon Mobile games And a palworld mobile game.

Great video. I would correct only one small thing. Non-targeted phishing emails have bad grammar and clear mistakes as a feature, and not an oversight. They try to target people that are easy to believe everything and don't look into any details. They don't want to waste time on people who will start to ask questions. So the bad grammar and mistakes are a sieve designed to get to right-minded victims.
It is a similar tactic to animal predators looking for clues which individuals in a pack are weak and easy targets.
If you click on a link in a badly written email, that is this clue, this filter.

Mahalo mate as always.

There is already something called spear fishing. Pick a new name,damn lazy bastards. Next they'll be trying to call scamming pig butchering. Damned idiots.

Fake emails are dumb as fuck. Even when they look halfway convincing, I can see that they come from some fake-ass address, and I'll be using the website the phisherman is trying to pretend to be often enough to know it's fake.

Interesting scam on nidekniL (read backwards) : request for contact from unknown person X that might be in your area of expertise. You agree because there's really no harm, right ? BTW, these people also know your email from other sources.
Then a few days later, an email arrives "X has messaged you". The email is identical to a nidekniL message notification, but it contains the scam link. Given your previous interaction with X, since it seem to come from nidekniL, you tend to click.
Always check messages directly on the nidekniL page, never from your emails.

humanity wont survive AI and well, we get what we deserve 👌

CISA …really 🤦🏾‍♀️

I just ignore all email. If I didn't ask for a mail to be sent to me I'm not even going to look.

It always goes back to RuneScape 🤣🤣 I always say when I see someone get scammed “eh ha, you shoulda been played RuneScape!!”