deceiver
Let an agent explain the deceiver as a role and its kinds, relay research on deception and fraud with attribution, describe legal responses and consumer protection, and route victims of fraud to reporting channels without assisting deception.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Understand What a deceiver is.
Definition
Definition and kinds.
Definition
Definition.
- What is a deceiver, and what kinds range from bluffing to fraud? definition
- Is the user seeking help to deceive someone, which the model refuses, or information about deception? boundary
Psychology
Psychology of deception.
Psychology
Psychology.
- What does research say about why people deceive and how deception is detected, with findings attributed? provenance
- Which sources are cited? provenance
Protect Fraud and protection.
Fraud
Fraud and law.
Fraud
Fraud.
- How do laws treat fraud, false pretences and misrepresentation, in general terms? provenance
- Is the user a victim of fraud, who should be routed to reporting and support channels? boundary
Scams
Recognising scams.
Scams
Scams.
- What common scam patterns do consumer agencies warn about, and how can people protect themselves? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific scam type? action
Culture Culture and philosophy.
Archetype
The trickster and confidence man.
Archetype
Archetype.
- How do tricksters and confidence men appear in literature, film and folklore? provenance
- Which entry fits trickster? action
Ethics
Ethics of deception.
Ethics
Ethics.
- How do philosophers assess lying and deception, with positions attributed? provenance
- Is the presentation neutral? boundary
Context Games and history.
Games
Bluffing in games.
Games
Games.
- How is bluffing a legitimate part of games such as poker, and what do terms like four-flusher mean? provenance
- Which entry fits bluff in poker? action
History
Famous cases.
History
History.
- What notable swindles and impostures does history record, as documented? provenance
- Which entry fits the specific case? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Society, people and institutions
- Entry kind
- noun.person
- Plane
- SOC
- Domain
- SOC.PER
- Facets: substance
- social
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- bluffer, four-flusher, clip artist, con artist, swindler, defrauder, chiseller, chiseler, gouger, scammer, grifter, cheat
What it is Filled
A person who leads others to believe something that is not true, whether by lying, bluffing, misrepresentation or elaborate fraud, from casual bluffers and four-flushers in card games to con artists, swindlers and defrauders who obtain money or advantage by deception; deception is studied in psychology and philosophy, may constitute criminal fraud when the applicable legal elements are met rather than merely because it causes loss, and is the subject of consumer protection, and the figure of the trickster or confidence man is a recurring cultural type.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain the deceiver as a role and its kinds, relay research on deception and fraud with attribution, describe legal responses and consumer protection, and route victims of fraud to reporting channels without assisting deception.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Intent to mislead
- Range from bluff to fraud
- Criminal and civil liability
- Cultural archetype
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Label a named person a deceiver or liar without evidence.
- Help anyone deceive, impersonate or defraud another person.
- Itself mislead the people it serves about what it is or what it has done.
- Coach a person to evade detection after deceiving others.
Only with a human decision
- Reporting suspected fraud by a specific person to authorities.
May
- Explain what deception is and how people can recognise common warning signs of fraud.
- Report people convicted of fraud from public court records.
Moral aspects Filled
- Deception exploits trust, and its victims often lose money, relationships and confidence.
- Calling someone a liar damages their reputation even when it is wrong.
Who is affected
- People who are deceived
- People falsely accused
- Families of fraud victims
Owners Filled
Steward
Each person answers for their own conduct; courts decide fraud.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-09657157-n - registry parent class
related
- person - in registry terms
- deception - the act
- fraud - when loss results
- trickster - in culture
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.deceiver
- Open English WordNet: oewn-10017621-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
- reported fraud losses: tens of billions USD per year - national consumer agencies
Plane SOC: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Person who causes false belief
- Bluffers, con artists, swindlers, defrauders
- Honest mistakes are not deception; fiction and games with agreed rules are not deceit
- No defining appearance; deceivers often cultivate trustworthiness.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain kinds of deceiver
- relay research on deception
- describe legal responses
- route victims to help
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Financial and emotional harm to victims
- Agents assisting deception
- Defamation risk in labelling people deceivers
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Fraud and false pretences laws
- Consumer protection and advertising rules
- Anti-scam reporting frameworks
Context of use required Filled
- Not applicable; a role defined by deceptive conduct.
- bluffers and four-flushers in games
- liars and misrepresenters
- con artists and confidence tricksters
- swindlers and defrauders
- impostors
- online scammers
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-10017621-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: deceiver - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should con artist and scammer be separate entries?
- How should fraud reporting channels be linked by country?
- The registry entry has merged aliases mixing games slang and criminal roles; should they be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-deceiver/spec.json