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Living Evidence Synthesis

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Technology and AI

Approved public versions are listed newest first. Drafts, unsuccessful generation attempts, and versions not yet published through this Research Insight are excluded.

Approved public versions

  1. Version 57

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first assembled evidence synthesis for the controlled topic “Technology and AI” using only the supplied reviewed evidence records. No previous-version evidence changes are applicable.

    • Publications: 41 (+6)
    • Evidence statements: 137 (+15)
    • Cited sources: 41 (+6)

    Sources added: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Love scam in cyberspace; Paradoks Hukum Rekayasa Sosial Pig Butchering Scam Dalam Investasi Digital Aset Kripto; and 8 more.

    Sources removed: From swipe to swindle: a narrative review of research on older adult victims of romance fraud; Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; My Parents Expectations Were Overwhelming: Online Dating Romance Scams Targeting Minors in Iran Through Exploitation of Parental Pressure; Romance Scam and Legal Interpreting/Translation; and 2 more.

  2. Version 56

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 55.

  3. Version 55

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 35 (-2)
    • Evidence statements: 122 (+3)
    • Cited sources: 35 (-2)

    Sources added: Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; Online Romance Scammers; “I Suspect That the Pictures Are Stolen”: Romance Fraud, Identity Crime, and Responding to Suspicions of Inauthentic Identities.

    Sources removed: Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; Examining fifty cases of convicted online romance fraud offenders; Love, Lies, and Larceny: One Hundred Convicted Case Files of Cybercriminals with Eighty Involving Online Romance Fraud; Meeting you was a fake: investigating the increase in romance fraud during COVID-19; and 2 more.

  4. Version 54

    Initial version: this is the first synthesis prepared from the supplied, human‑approved evidence set. No prior-version evidence changes apply.

    • Publications: 37 (-3)
    • Evidence statements: 119 (-11)
    • Cited sources: 37 (-3)

    Sources added: Connecting Chinese and American Scam Victims; Crypto-Cognitive Exploitation: Integrating Cognitive, Social, and Technological perspectives on cryptocurrency fraud; Digital romance fraud targeting unmarried women; Hook, line, and sinker: the mechanics of fraud; and 7 more.

    Sources removed: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; Analysis of a Cryptocurrency Investment Scam: Pig Butchering; Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; A Sinister Fattening: Dissecting the Tales of Pig Butchering and Other Cryptocurrency Scams; and 10 more.

  5. Version 53

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version: this synthesis is the first complete replacement prepared for the controlled topic "Technology and AI" using only the supplied, reviewed evidence. All protected passages identified by the audit were preserved verbatim with their exact evidence IDs. Unsupported or overstated assertions flagged in the audit (for example, claims about universal scriptification, explicit empirical prevalence of LLM‑run end‑to‑end operations, and some c...

    • Publications: 40 (-5)
    • Evidence statements: 130 (-19)
    • Cited sources: 40 (-5)

    Sources added: Love scam in cyberspace.

    Sources removed: Explore the Causes of Crime and Social Impact of Romance Fraud in Mainland China from 2019–2021; Love and Technology; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; Online Romance in the 21st Century; and 2 more.

  6. Version 52

    Initial version: no material evidence changes from a prior version were applied because this is the first evidence-synthesis output for the controlled topic using the supplied reviewed evidence.

    • Publications: 45 (+7)
    • Evidence statements: 149 (+10)
    • Cited sources: 45 (+7)

    Sources added: A crime script perspective on mapping the entry, continuation, and exit pathways of online romance fraud; Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; CHAPTER 10 The Online Mutual Help Practices of Romance Fraud Victims; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; and 17 more.

    Sources removed: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; and 10 more.

  7. Version 51

    Automated claim-level support repair round 2, correcting 2 passages from synthesis version 50.

  8. Version 50

    Automated claim-level support repair round 1, correcting 3 passages from synthesis version 49.

  9. Version 49

    Automated evidence-grounded revision attempt 1. Initial version.

    • Publications: 38 (-6)
    • Evidence statements: 139 (-15)
    • Cited sources: 38 (-6)

    Sources removed: Media Presentation of Online Romance Fraud in the Czech Republic: Visibility, Victim-Offender Framing, and Sentiment; More than Money: Examining the Potential Exposure of Romance Fraud Victims to Identity Crime; Romance Scam as one of the main Challenges of cybercrime; The Role of Love stories in Romance Scams: A Qualitative Analysis of Fraudulent Profiles; and 2 more.

  10. Version 48

    Initial version: this synthesis is the first version produced from the supplied reviewed evidence. No prior-version evidence changes apply.

    • Publications: 44 (+7)
    • Evidence statements: 154 (+21)
    • Cited sources: 44 (+7)

    Sources added: A new type of victim? Profiling survivors of modern slavery in the online scam industry in Southeast Asia; An Examination of Digital Validation-Seeking Behaviors in Adolescents as Precursors to Romance Scamming; A Study on Romance Scam : The Current Situation and Effective Countermeasures; Catfishing on Social Media: A Criminal Law And Islamic Criminal Law Analysis In Jambi; and 15 more.

    Sources removed: Analyzing the Evolving Modus Operandi of Romance Scams via Court Judgments: Crime Script and Policy Implications; Deconstructing a form of hybrid investment fraud: Examining ‘pig butchering’ in the United States; Epistolary Affect and Romance Scams: Letter from an Unknown Woman; Essays on the Rationality of Online Romance Scammers; and 8 more.

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