How to not fall in love with AI-powered romance scammers

Tech expert Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson joins "Fox & Friends" to warn of new cyberscams and offer tips on how to avoid them. "Love is blind" takes on a more sinister meaning when so-called artificial intelligence (AI) becomes a tool for exploiting our deepest human emotions. Convincing AI technologies are increasingly targeting mature online daters, turning fantasies into lucrative and dangerous criminal enterprises. Romance scams have become the most common type of fraud in 2025 and have swindled would-be lovers out of over 1.3 billion in the United States alone. Just last year, the world heard the cautionary tale of a 53-year-old French woman who lost 850,000 to a convincing AI deepfake of Brad Pitt.