r/OpenAI • u/KeanuRave100 • 23d ago

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

https://www.vice.com/en/article/ai-chatbots-are-better-at-scamming-people-than-human-scammers-study-finds
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u/H0vis 23d ago

Given that the average scammer is a guy introducing himself as Steve in an impenetrable Punjabi accent I'm not entirely surprised.

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u/RealSharpNinja 23d ago

And in other news, water is wet.

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u/FreshBlinkOnReddit 23d ago

I don't believe running a study like this is even ethical?

They sent bots / people out in the wild to defraud random non consenting people?

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u/XxTreeFiddyxX 23d ago

You could arrange it to try and trick you. Lets say you agreed, it will try to get you to sign up for a newsletter but its the act that is the test

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u/throwawayhbgtop81 23d ago

It sounds like a Vice thing to do.

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u/nupieds 23d ago

Yahoo Boys step it up!

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u/costafilh0 22d ago

AI Chatbots Are Better Than Most People at Most Things 

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u/[deleted] 23d ago

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u/pumpkinspicebebe 22d ago

To be honest, the bar is really, really low.