Romance scams are one of the oldest cons in the online world, but they continue to pull in new victims all of the time. Joint research by four universities suggests that AI chatbots are now even better at carrying out these scams than humans, and that’s a pretty scary prospect …Romance scamsA romance scam these days typically begins on a dating app. AI versus humanWired reports on a research study carried out by four universities, using ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. This could allow massive scalingThe most worrying thing about this study is that using AI chatbots instead of human employees could allow scam centers to massively scale up their operations. Human intervention is only needed at the final stage, when the victim is asked for money, in order to circumvent safeguards built into AI systems.