A former Google manager and tech lead warns that dating apps are now rife with AI-enhanced images that put users’ safety at risk.
In a new post on X, Deedy Das, who is now a partner at the VC firm Menlo Ventures, says fraudsters are using Google’s Nano Banana Pro to dupe people in dating apps.
“Dating apps are the first big category to fall with Nano Banana Pro.
— Catfishers are everywhere
— No status-signaling: everyone can add travel photos, expensive clothes and watches
— Fix your face, height, weight.”
Nano Banana Pro is Google’s latest and most advanced AI image generation and editing model, built on the Gemini 3 Pro system.
Cybersecurity firm McAfee warns that scammers are targeting dating apps, social media and messaging platforms to spark relationships with victims in an effort to drain their money. The firm’s latest research shows that AI is now playing a huge role in scamming people on dating apps and social media.
“McAfee’s latest research reveals more than half (52%) of people have been scammed out of money or pressured to send money or gifts by someone they met online.
And romance scams aren’t just happening in dating apps anymore. Social media, messaging platforms and AI chatbots are fuelling an explosion of online romance fraud.
McAfee’s findings highlight a staggering rise in:
AI-powered scams: More than 1 in 4 people (26%) say they—or someone they know—have been approached by an AI chatbot posing as a real person on a dating app or social media.”
With the advances in AI and Nano Banana Pro, scammers can now create realistic and alluring images and use AI chatbots to dupe victims into sending money and gifts.
And AI is not just being used for text and image generation. Recently, an elderly woman in the UK was tricked into sending $26,470 to a fraudster who used AI to generate chillingly convincing deepfake videos.
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