STORYBOARD 18 – Anthropic found that a China-based studio had used its Claude AI to operate ~ 4,700 fake profiles across 20 dating apps. ~75% of the profiles shown to users were AI personas, which exchanged 2M+ messages with 25K people in two weeks. Human workers handled video calls and social-media follow-backs to make the profiles appear real. Anthropic banned the accounts and reported the apps to Apple and Google.
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