I had to ask a candidate to provide social proof and conduct a background check before offer for a position. Why? AI Deep fakes.
- online presence created within the last month with date tags but you’ve been working for a decade and went to an American university?
- no open source projects or contributions
- works at marquee brand companies with >100 network connections/follows after a decade - if you work at Apple or Google, everyone you’ve ever worked with and their mother will try to connect with you
- photoshopped photo that looks like the other fake I caught last month
- American names like “Doug Anderson” but Zoom interview, the accent doesn’t sound like white cis-gender male from FL
- take profile photo and cross reference with Google Images to uncover the real owner of photo - university professor?? (Faculty photos are huge targets to create fake identities)

Truly a problem that everyone on my team and industry at large is trying to combat - never had to until this year! 😵‍💫

✨ sleepy girl in a busy world 🤓 AI identity and security | cornell MBA | chasingtalent.xyz

wow, that’s crazy! this is for a job position? What even is their goal, to get paid until you notice they’re not a real person? its a brave new world 😵‍💫

I work for a security company so they target becoming an employee to access and steal our data. Most of the common demographic these fakes are based in are North Korea, China, etc.