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Sources for Financial-decision manipulation

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Federal Trade Commission · 2022 Staff report

Bringing Dark Patterns to Light (original source, new tab)

Describes deceptive interface design; many mechanisms predate AI and are not evidence of AI-specific prevalence.

FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center · December 2024 Official public advisory

Criminals Use Generative Artificial Intelligence to Facilitate Financial Fraud (original source, new tab)

Documents fraud uses of generated text, images, voice and video; does not quantify prevalence of each method.

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