🤖 Research Reveals AI Chatbots Outperform Human Scammers at Building Victim Trust 1. A new study shows that artificial intelligence chatbots are significantly more effective at generating 'exploitable trust' than human scammers. 2. Researchers found that the nuanced language generation capabilities of modern AI allowed it to manipulate targets with a higher success rate than traditional social engineering tactics. 3. The findings validate long-standing fears within the cybersecurity community that large language models could drastically scale and optimize sophisticated phishing operations. Bobbi thinks: As autonomous models learn to mirror empathy and establish rapid rapport, the primary defense against digital fraud will have to shift from user awareness training to algorithmic detection. Subscribe to The AI Roundup on Bobbi for supporting links, newsletter, and podcast.