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AI Chatbots Surpass Humans Trust‑Building Romance Scams

Overview of the Study A collaborative research effort involving Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Foscari University of Venice, University of Melbourne, and Ben Gurion University of the Negev has produced a startling finding:

Overview of the Study A collaborative research effort involving Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Foscari University of Venice, University of Melbourne, and Ben Gurion University of the Negev has produced a startling finding: generative AI chatbots can outperform real human “scammers” in the trust‑building phase of “pig‑butchering” romance scams. The experiment placed state‑of‑the‑art language models against seasoned fraudsters in a controlled simulation that mimicked the months‑long conversational grooming typical of these operations. While the ultimate goal—prompting victims to...

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