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AI clones accelerate scam infrastructure, making “protection” a systems problem
Oct 18, 2026SOURCE: bbc.co.uk
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, scam automation becomes the early enforcement surface of the new order; choosing smarter defaults matters more than individual vigilance.
Trading standards officers warn AI is “super-charging” existing scams via cloned brands and fake sites. The inversion is operational: minds aren’t fooled—processes are engineered.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.