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Surveys in Costa Rica, Colombia, and Guatemala reveal that 62–76% of dating app users suspect AI chatbots, fake profiles, and deepfakes posing as matches. These malicious AI-driven profiles have led to phishing attempts, romance scams, and emotional harm, prompting demands for identity verification measures to assure genuine human interactions.[AI generated]
Why's our monitor labelling this an incident or hazard?
The event involves AI systems (conversational bots, deepfakes) used in dating apps that have directly led to harms including emotional manipulation, deception, and phishing attacks on users. These constitute harm to people and communities, fulfilling the criteria for an AI Incident. The article describes realized harms, not just potential risks, and the AI's role is pivotal in causing these harms. Therefore, this is classified as an AI Incident.[AI generated]