TL;DR: We ran a human subject study on whether language models can successfully spear-phish people. We use AI agents built from GPT-4o and Claude 3.5 Sonnet to search the web for available information on a target and use this for highly personalized phishing messages. We achieved a click-through rate of above 50% for our AI-generated phishing emails.Full paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00586This post is intended to be a brief summary of the main findings, these are some key insights we gained:...