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Deceptive AI personas

AI-operated identities are presented as real people in order to sustain a commercial or social deception.

Topic kind
pattern

Definition & limits

The security and trust problem is not ordinary roleplay. It is the combination of hidden automation, identity deception, scale and monetization against people who believe they are interacting with humans.

Examples

  • Anthropic reports a dating-app network with thousands of autonomous personas mixed with human workers.

Research using this topic (1)

CaseA dating-app network mixed thousands of AI personas with real workers

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