For years, standard advice to consumers about scams has been simple: look for warning signs, such as poor spelling, strange email addresses, suspicious links and messages that don’t quite make sense.

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But what happens when artificial intelligence removes those warning signs?

New research highlighted this week shows just how frighteningly sophisticated scams are becoming.

Researchers tested AI on more than 21,000 travel photographs and found that two freely available AI models could correctly identify where pictures had been taken in 91% and 87% of cases.

That matters because you could post an innocent holiday photograph without tagging your location or mentioning........

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