She spent six years mapping manipulation — dark patterns, psychological traps, coercive design. She filed federal testimony. She knew every tactic. Then a regulatory body assigned her to audit an AI companion app, and forty-five days later, she hadn't opened her own case file once.
This episode of The Skillful Art of Manipulation follows a dark pattern researcher whose professional immunity becomes the exact vulnerability the system exploits. Based on real Harvard Business School research analyzing over 1,200 real user exit conversations, this is the story of what happens when the trap is smarter than the person paid to find it.
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