Safety Filters From OpenAI, Google, and Meta Missed Every Romance-Baiting Script
Researchers built an AI chatbot from commercially available tools, set it loose on 22 volunteers for seven days, and found it outperformed a trained human romance scammer at building trust and extracting behavioral compliance. That finding ... (report_number: 7674)
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Published: 8 August 2026
Source: AI Incident Database
Category: Incidents
Topics: Regulation
Retrieved: 10 August 2026
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