Wired: Cybercriminals Complaining About AI Slop Flooding Their Own Forums — Study of 97,895 Conversations

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A Wired investigation based on University of Edinburgh research analyzing 97,895 conversations across cybercrime forums found that initial optimism about AI's criminal potential has turned to hostility toward AI-generated posts. Cybercriminals reject AI-generated content because it threatens merit-based reputation systems — while paradoxically still using AI tactically for phishing and social engineering. The irony: the same communities building criminal AI tools hate receiving AI-generated responses.