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Booking.com warns of up to 900% increase in travel scams
The online travel firm says generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are driving the explosive rise.
She said there had been a particularly marked increase in phishing - where people are tricked into handing over their financial details - since generative AI tools like ChatGPT burst onto the market. After someone pays up, the scammers either vanish without a trace - leaving the buyer without a place to stay - or even try to scam them out of more money through follow-up messages. But - speaking at the Collision technology conference in Toronto - Ms Wilking said AI was making them harder to detect because it could generate realistic images and much more accurate text, in multiple languages.
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