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A 20-app dating network sold coins so 25,000 people could message 4,700 AI personas
Anthropic's investigation counted 2.36 million messages over two weeks in April 2026. The operators put paid humans on video calls and let a second AI model draft their lines, so the face on the call and the words in the chat came from different places.
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