According to security expert Brian Krebs, WormGPT is the creation of a Portuguese developer, “Last,” who is in his twenties. The system is — or, was — being used by approximately 200 customers, and due to media interest in the chatbot, Last appeared to be trying to move the project in a new direction.
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Last said he wanted to change the conversation from malicious to uncensored, and to do so, constraints are being implemented in WormGPT. Last told Krebs:
“Anything related to murders, drug traffic, kidnapping, child porn, ransomwares, financial crime. We are working on blocking BEC too, at the moment it is still possible but most of the times it will be incomplete because we already added some limitations. Our plan is to have WormGPT marked as an uncensored AI, not blackhat.”
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However, a day after the report was published, the Telegram developer channel for WormGPT was closed down. It could be that the project is still ongoing or will be rebranded, but time will tell. The developer said:
“At the end of the day, WormGPT is nothing more than an unrestricted ChatGPT. Anyone on the internet can employ a well-known jailbreak technique and achieve the same, if not better, results by using jailbroken versions of ChatGPT.”
