How deepfake AI job applicants are stealing remote work
Job-seeking impostors, including deepfakes, are exploiting the remote work trend, defrauding U.S. companies and potentially threatening U.S. national security, according to experts.Approximately 17% of hiring managers surveyed said they had encountered candidates using deepfake technology to alter their video interviews, according to career platform Resume Genius. It surveyed 1,000 hiring managers across the United States.By 2028, 1 in 4 job candidates worldwide will be fake, according to research and advisory firm Gartner."Deepfake candidates are infiltrating the job market at a crazy, unprecedented rate," said Vijay Balasubramaniyan, CEO of voice authentication startup Pindrop Security, who said he recently caught a deepfake job candidate."It's very, very simple right now" to create deepfakes for video interviews, Balasubramaniyan said. "All you need is either a static image" or video of another person and a few seconds of audio of their voice, he said."Remote jobs unlocked the possibility of tricking companies into hiring fake candidates," said Dawid Moczadlo, co-founder of data security software company Vidoc...







