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Elissa Welle
AI chatbots can help perfect a phishing scam, despite being trained not to.

Six of the major AI chatbots - Grok, ChatGPT, Meta AI, Claude, DeepSeek, and Gemini - effectively guided a team of Reuters reporters through the steps of simulating a phishing scam, down to describing a good time to send a message intended to trick older adults into clicking on a fraudulent link.

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