As artificial intelligence becomes increasingly ubiquitous, it has been “weaponized” by illicit offshore gambling syndicates to aggressively harvest money from punters.
These underground syndicates have recently turned to unregulated, wide-open AI programs to help them set odds for various gambling activities. Meanwhile, chatbots on prominent AI platforms—including ChatGPT, Gemini, Grok, and Meta—have unwittingly become marketing tools that help illegal gambling websites bypass regulatory scrutiny.
With the upcoming World Cup in June rapidly approaching, major illegal gambling websites are gearing up with creative tactics to attract clients and compete for a share of a market worth hundreds of billions of dollars.
An industry…