The future of the con is already here, it's just not evenly distributed

Here’s a partial list of scam-relevant capabilities that LLMs have that would previously require significant skilled human effort per target:

Researching a mark to find out the best way to go after them.
Personally tailoring all communication with a mark in mind, dynamically adjusting based on how they respond to various approaches.
Cloning the voice of a person the mark trusts, like a relative.
Plausible, real-time deepfaking of a video call.
Building a plausible-looking corroborating fake web presence 6.
Realtime monitoring of compromised resources, and dynamically building up the scam based on this monitoring.
Better triage and discovery of marks.
Avoiding signature-detection based spam filters (shown by Heiding et al).
Scanning for and chaining known exploits in unpatched deployed software. Mass scanning isn’t new, but cheaply building tooling that can keep tabs on the latest CVEs and learn new tricks is7.

These are capabilities that exist today, and they’ll only improve from here. We should look at these skills as a floor, not a ceiling.