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AI scammers outperform humans when it comes to building trust

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31 Jul
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30 Jul
Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others. www.wired.com/story/ai-sca...

Researchers pitted a person against a Claude agent and found that, after a week of texting, the AI chatbot was more effective at creating “exploitable trust” with others.

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16 Aug
AI Chatbots Are Better at Scamming People Than Human Scammers, Study Finds

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