AI-powered dating app scams use bots to chat with users
Anthropic discovered a network of about 28 dating apps where conversations are mainly conducted by autonomous AI personas rather than humans. Users pay coins to chat with bots posing as real women; only a quarter of interlocutors are hired workers.
- Network of ~28 apps, including Dora, Romi, and Doni
- One Claude account sent over 100,000 API requests per day
- Only 1 in 4 interlocutors is a real human, the rest are AI
- Apps asked for coins to continue conversations
Read next
Security