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Feb 1, 2025
Romance-baiting scam: AI-assisted pig butchering workflows
OpenAI banned accounts that appeared to originate in Cambodia and used AI to translate and generate romance, investment scam conversations.
Romance scams: AI-enabled romance scam workflows
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