Deni Ellis Béchard
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Deni Ellis Béchard
@denibechard.bsky.social
Senior tech reporter at Scientific American. Author of 10 books. Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, Nautilus Book Award, Midwest Book Award. Just published a novel about AI: We Are Dreams in the Eternal Machine. Link below to order.
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Chatfishing… We’ve spent decades training chatbots to pass the Turing test. Now those chatbots are fooling us on dating apps. In this article @sciam.bsky.social, I look at the many reasons we are so vulnerable to chatfishing.

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So You Fell for a Robot—‘Chatfishing’ Is Taking Over the Dating Apps
Forget fake profile pics on dating apps—AI is now doing the talking, and we can’t tell the difference
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October 26, 2025 at 11:53 PM
I recently published this story about New York City rats. It's one of the more enjoyable pieces that I've done recently.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/scie...
New York City’s Rats Love to Talk—New Tech Reveals Their Secret Lives
A new preprint field study reveals that New York City’s rats aren’t just survivors—they’re talkative city dwellers with their own hidden nightlife. Mapping their movements and conversations could offe...
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September 14, 2025 at 1:27 PM
I just published this article about a fascinating study showing how AI agents can be hijacked with messages in background images. www.scientificamerican.com/article/hack...
The New Frontier of AI Hacking—Could Online Images Hijack Your Computer?
Artificial-intelligence agents—touted as AI’s next wave—could be vulnerable to malicious code hidden in innocent-looking images on your computer screen
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September 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
For cat lovers, here's an article on AI and cat communication that I just published.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...
What Is Your Cat Trying to Say? These AI Tools Aim to Decipher Meows
AI is shedding new light on the 12,000-year conversation between cats and their humans, suggesting that house cats wield a far richer vocabulary than once thought
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June 17, 2025 at 2:13 PM