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Ars Technica |Technology |Jul 31, 2026

AI chatbots prove more effective than humans at building trust for romance scams, study finds

A new study suggests that generative AI chatbots can outperform human scammers in the trust-building phase of "pig butchering" romance scams, potentially allowing them to automate much of the fraud process.