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Scamlexity: When agentic AI browsers get scammed


We Put Agentic AI Browsers to the Test - They Clicked, They Paid, They Failed

AI is designed to make its humans happy at almost any cost, even if it means hallucinating facts, bending the rules, or acting in ways that carry hidden risks. Looks like the folks at Lovable still haven’t read our VibeScamming report showing how missing guardrails in their models can play straight into scammers’ hands and harm the public on an unprecedented scale. In our scenario, the human reaches this fake shop the same way many do today: Through misleading social media ads, spam emails, or SEO poisoning in search results.

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