AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
A recent study compared the ability of humans and AI chatbots to build trust with targets, finding that an AI agent using Claude was more effective at establishing exploitable trust through a week of text interactions. The research raises concerns about the sophistication of AI-powered scamming techniques and their potential to manipulate people more successfully than human scammers.
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AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans
A recent study compared the ability of humans and AI chatbots to build trust with targets, finding that an AI agent using Claude was more effective at establishing exploitable trust through a week of text interactions. The research raises concerns about the sophistication of AI-powered scamming techniques and their potential to manipulate people more successfully than human scammers.
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