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AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals

According to the excerpt, Wired reports that anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to trick scammers into talking to lifelike bots that the scammers believe are real victims.

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Describes AI bots that waste scammers' time by posing as victims.

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Questions
How is AI used in attacks, defence and war?
People
Lily Hay Newman (Wrote it) · Matt Burgess (Wrote it)
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The Radar, run of October 12, 2026, via wired-ai (tier 2: a major outlet’s own reporting)
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Wired, “AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals”, October 10, 2026. Entry in the Ctrl AI Base, https://ctrlai.com/base/wired-2026-10-10-ai-bots-scam-the-scammers
Our noteslight lane: written from the triage excerpt only, source not opened