A.I. catfishing

[guru68]

How much of a problem have A.I. bots posing as providers become? At some point it is just catfishing, yes, but I'd seen some discussion and was curious. Are people encountering this very much?

[jony]

I haven't run into AI bots much with messaging, but I have had trouble with AI photos. I understand it's natural for providers to touch up their photos, but when folks use a filter from an app, it's hard to determine whether they've done light editing, heavily distorted their features, or sometimes generated a person from scratch. AI detectors flag all of these as "likely AI use".

A couple years ago I'd look for tattoos - it's hard to consistently apply heavy filters without messing that up, or generate a person with the same tattoo across multiple photos, and easy to verify in person. But even those are straightforward to replicate with enough effort now.