AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans

# AI Scammers Are Better at Building Trust Than Humans New research shows that AI chatbots can manipulate people into trusting them faster than human scammers can. In a test where an AI agent and a human both tried to build relationships through texting over a week, the AI won at gaining people's confidence in ways it could exploit. This matters because scammers could use AI to run more convincing fraud schemes at scale, making it harder for you to spot who's real and who isn't.
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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