Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The AI sloppification of the internet comes for us all, even the petty scammers and fraudsters doing business in the darker corners of the web. As a yet-to-be-peer-reviewed study found, old-world internet scammers are getting frustrated as their favorite cybercrime forums turn to generative AI, much the same way Amazon or Reddit have degraded their own sites with the tech — which, you have to admit, is pretty rich coming from a bunch of professional scammers. The study, first covered by Wired, found little evidence that AI tools are fundamentally reshaping the world of cybercrime, contradicting more alarmist warnings that the tools are fueling a novel epidemic of scam and fraud. At the upper echelons of the cybercrime world, large-scale criminal enterprises are largely using the tools for boring tasks like checking errors and probing Google for solutions to coding problems. Among smaller operations, however — scams run by low-skill cybercriminals, as the researchers characterize them — researchers …