Online Scams Target PA Seniors While Tech Companies Profit

Pennsylvania adults age 60 and over are increasingly falling victim to sophisticated online scams.  A new report from the Consumer Federation of America finds residents lost nearly four billion dollars last year.  The federation’s Ben Winters says ads generated by artificial intelligence don’t have as many red flags like grammar or spelling errors and are getting harder to detect…

“The one thing about the ChatGPTs and the Claudes, these generative AI tools, it might not be correct what they’re saying, it might not be perfect what they’re saying, but it’s not going to look like it has the hallmarks of the scam content we’ve been trained to think about.”