In TrendsSensex TodaySteamhouse India IPO GMPGold and Silver PricesBRICS SummitBank Strike TodayFake AI, real fraud: Inside China’s 20-app dating scam network built on Anthropic's ClaudeA China-based studio built more than 20 dating apps using 4,700 AI personas, gig workers and image tools, with the Claude-powered network engaging at least 25,000 users in 2.36 million chats.By Vivek Dubey September 11, 2026, 11:49:33 AM IST (Published)A China-based studio built more than 20 “dating” apps that were, by the operator’s own design, mostly not dating apps at all. Instead, they were AI-run confidence schemes engineered to slip past App Store and Play Store review and keep victims paying for as long as possible.Anthropic disclosed the operation, internally designated GTG-15001, in its September 2026 threat intelligence report.Over a single two-week window in April 2026, the company found more than 4,700 distinct AI-driven personas, built using Claude, holding conversations with at least 25,000 people. In that fortnight alone, the Claude-run personas generated roughly 2.36 million messages.What makes the case notable isn’t the fraud itself — romance scams are old news — but the industrial design behind it: a studio that treated AI chatbots, image generators and gig workers as interchangeable parts on an assembly line…
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