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405 AI is wreaking havoc with scams, and it’s raising the bills for buyers

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Manisha Priyadarshini @ Digital Trends · today 18:11 EDT

AI is wreaking havoc with scams, and it’s raising the bills for buyers

As AI makes scams more convincing and easier to scale, small businesses are losing money at alarming rates, with those losses increasingly showing up in what buyers pay.

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