28 fake dating apps, 4,700 AI girlfriends, 25,000 guys paying per message
diegoposts · x · 2026-09-17
Scammers ran 28 fake dating apps hosting 4,700 AI girlfriends, charging about 25,000 men per message to chat with bots powered by Claude. As the author puts it: Hollywood wrote Her as a tragedy — someone else read it as a pitch deck.
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