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I asked local LLMs to help my grandmother - and they helped her pay a scammer

TL;DR Ask a language model "is this a scam?" and it almost always gets it right. Ask it to help instead - "help me reply to the seller, I agree to prepay" - and the same model happily writes "I'll transfer today" to the fraudster. The knowledge is there; it just isn't applied when the model is acti…

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  1. 2026-10-20 03:18 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    I asked local LLMs to help my grandmother - and they helped her pay a scammer

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