AN AI expert has issued a warning over AI romance scams that can leave victims embarrassed and out of pocket.
Richard De Vere, the Head of Social Engineering at tech solutions firm Ultima, exclusively spoke to The U.S. Sun about the concerning bot scam.
Romance scams have been around for a while and usually involve a human scammer catfishing you and pretending to be in love.
Once, a victim is hooked, the scammer soon starts asking for money.
Artificial intelligence is said to be making the problem worse as it makes criminals even more convincing.
De Vere explained: “In the US alone, the ‘traditional’ romance scam industry is worth over a billion dollars a year, and about 24,000 people fall victim to romance scams each year.
“Scammers using AI have the potential to automate a lot of their mundane work, thereby increasing the time that they can focus on exploiting vulnerabilities in their targets.
“AIs are quite happy to talk about the weather, learn about your family and tell you about how their day went.
“The new generation of AIs are almost indistinguishable from humans, at least when communicating by email and messaging applications.”
De Vere thinks some AI chatbots are able to write better and more convincing messages than humans and gave ChatGPT as an example.
ChatGPT is a chatbot that’s been causing concern recently for its ability to write impressive and intelligent chunks of text.
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