# Gut feeling does nothing against AI spear phishing texts > Source: > Published: 2026-08-07 04:00:11+00:00 A banker at a credit union sat down at a table with a dozen printed text messages, all of them written for that banker personally, and put them in order from the one most likely to get a click down to the one least likely. One of them stopped the sorting. It looked like something the bank sends out: “alert literally looks like the alert we get [at work] when there’s a fraud.” Half the … [More ](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/07/ai-spear-phishing-research/) The post [Gut feeling does nothing against AI spear phishing texts](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/08/07/ai-spear-phishing-research/) appeared first on [Help Net Security](https://www.helpnetsecurity.com).