Cybercriminals have been struggling to use artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit their work, new research which analysed around 100 million posts from underground and dark web cybercrime communities suggests. The researchers found that most cybercriminals lack the skills or resources to use such innovation in their criminal activities. The team of researchers from the universities of Edinburgh , Strathclyde and Cambridge analysed discussions from the CrimeBB database that contains more than 100 million posts scraped from dark web and underground cybercrime forums. A combination of machine learning tools and manual sampling techniques were used to analyse the conversations. The researchers were searching for posts that discussed how cybercriminals, often dubbed hackers, were experimenting with AI technologies from November 2022 onwards, which also marked the release of ChatGPT.…