Lana Swartz

Lana Swartz is the University of Virginia scholar quoted in AI makes it easier to code websites — including ones that scam consumers. She frames AI agents becoming everyday infrastructure as a broader trust problem: people are likely to encounter more scams and fraud as AI changes how official-looking media, websites, and interactions are produced.

Her role in the wiki is to widen the episode beyond one fake retail site. The source uses her comments to connect AI-Assisted Website Scams with deepfake videos, job scams, and impostor sites as part of a larger need to recalibrate online trust signals.

Connections

• University of Virginia - her affiliation in the source.
• AI-Assisted Website Scams, AI-Enabled Scam Industrialization, and Social Engineering Fraud - trust and fraud concepts she helps connect.
• Search Ad Trust Gap - one concrete trust-signal failure in the episode.
• Marketplace Tech - show context.