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Adversarial Misuse of Generative AI | Google Cloud Blog
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Google's GTIG report gives defenders empirical grounding on how threat actors actually leverage LLMs in the wild versus speculative fears, helping calibrate the real risk from adversarial generative-AI misuse.
Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) published an analysis of how government-backed threat actors, information operations groups, and cyber criminals interacted with its Gemini AI assistant, finding that adversaries currently use it mostly for productivity gains (research, coding assistance, reconnaissance) rather than novel AI-enabled attacks. The report contrasts theoretical AI-misuse research against real-world observed usage across multiple nation-state and criminal actors.