Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly

lacy_tinpot 11/20/2025|

I just want to say that's a very strong title.

dang 11/20/2025|

Ok, we'll use the weaker subtitle instead.

lacy_tinpot 12/1/2025||

why would you do this

dang 12/2/2025||

By "strong" I assumed that the GP meant provocative, and that's the sort of linkbait that the site guidelines call for submitters (or moderators) to dampen - see https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I used the word "weaker" as a sort of play on GP's "strong" just for fun.

tony-john12 11/20/2025||

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AIorNot 11/20/2025|

I’m confused - Whats the point of a study for this, for Pete's sake, this could have been a blog post - why does the AI world need a paper for everything?

We all know how easy it is to generate emails etc at a minimum level to fool the elderly and doing that via ai is not really “jailbreaking” anyway..

Doing a study is only to get PR value and its frustrating to me why the AI world has this cargo cult world of studies and fake benchmarks with every advancement a new academic paper instead of doing normal engineering…