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August 3, 2026
The next applicant appears on the screen, ready for the interview. Questions go smoothly, they seem to have all the right answers, and their background has already been vetted. So, they're hired as the latest remote IT worker. Weeks later, the company discovers it was all a sham. The face on the video call was manipulated using deepfake technology, and even the voice was altered with artificial intelligence (AI). The person they hired doesn't exist.
AI is capable of generating extremely authentic-looking videos, which can be used for disinformation, social engineering, identity theft/impersonation, and deepfakes. They've become so realistic that Rohit Kundu, Ph.D. research intern at YouTube and doctoral candidate at University of California Riverside, can't even decipher the real from the fake — and he studies them every day.
