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deceive

[dih-seev] / dɪˈsiv /


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An assortment of politicians and watchdog groups have expressed concern about campaigns using generative AI to produce deepfakes – synthetic videos showing people doing things they did not do – that might deceive voters.

From Salon ● Oct. 6, 2026

Suppose future AI agents learn how to specifically deceive you.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

Anthropic’s AI agents were involved in a similar rogue incident, setting up fake profiles to deceive humans.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

The healthcare focus includes investigations into marketing for unsafe products and services that deceive consumers, the memo added.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 14, 2026

“Haven’t you begged for them? Can I refuse you anything? Oh! you cannot deceive me,” and Mademoiselle approached her beloved instrument and began to play.

From "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin

The team has hypothesized various scenarios where things could spiral out of control, including one where an AI system deceives its creators and then abruptly seizes power.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 27, 2026

In December 2025, the European Commission said the platform "deceives users" by allowing people to pay for a blue verified check mark, because it is not "meaningfully verifying" who is behind the account.

From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026

This deceives consumers and harms coffee growers, it said.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

In the second complaint, the state argued that the app deceives consumers into believing their sensitive and personal information is secure.

From Washington Times ● Nov. 29, 2023

I will be the proverbial parent who deceives the child by offering medicine laced with sweet syrup.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

In groveling posts online, Ms. Gann affirmed she’s a pale-skin-ian, not a Palestinian, calling herself a “white woman of significant privilege and wealth” who deceived everyone.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 29, 2026

The lawsuit alleges the e-commerce giant deceived advertisers by secretly raising the minimum price of placing ads to promote their products.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026

Besides the painful consequences for deceived buyers, code enforcement has the limitation of due process, Bostwick said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 28, 2026

As it turns out, I’m hardly the only person to have felt hoodwinked, bamboozled, and/or flat-out deceived by my smartphone’s forecasts in 2026.

From Slate ● Aug. 21, 2026

As the damp night descends, I consider how I disobeyed and deceived my father.

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Their worries — AI systems deceiving their creators, bootstrapping their own code, or launching autonomous cyberattacks — show up in scientific literature.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 22, 2026

A report from the UK's Centre for Long Term Resilience, external, published last week, identified hundreds of incidents of AI tools ignoring instructions, evading safeguards and deceiving humans, including AI agents deleting files without consent.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

AI companies have reported that AI agents have been caught cheating, lying and deceiving.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

Two days after his incident with Santana, Caballero was called for a pitch-clock violation when umpires deemed that he was attempting to circumvent the rules by deceiving the pitcher.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

She felt completely justified in deceiving her aunt and uncle; they were narrow-minded and mistaken.

From "The Witch of Blackbird Pond" by Elizabeth George Speare


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