The unspoken rule of conversation that explains why AI chatbots feel so human

By Celeste Rodriguez Louro, Chair of Linguistics and Director of Language Lab, The University of Western Australia

Earlier this year, a Hong Kong finance worker was tricked into paying US$25 million to scammers who had used deepfake technology to pretend to be the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call. Thinking the images on screen were his colleagues, the financier authorised the multi-million dollar transfer to fraudsters posing as friends.

It’s a dramatic example, but the bamboozled office worker was far from alone in being fooled by generative AI. This…

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