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When the participants tried to end a conversation, researchers had the companion either reply with the same manipulative farewells they had observed popular AI companions use or, in the control condition, say goodbye.

"I loved the idea of playing someone a bit evil and manipulative. I also loved the weirdness and spookiness of the way the story plays out," she says.

She said the criminals had "acted in a completely selfish and manipulative manner to make huge sums for themselves" while exploiting elderly timeshare owners.

Arquette has earned multiple award nominations over the years, and Globe and Emmy wins for previous portrayals of manipulative figures based on truly awful people at the center of other real crime cases.

She finds him impossible, brilliant, manipulative, honest, constantly scheming, always looking out for her and inscrutably devoid of impulse control, especially for a veteran diplomat.