It's bad enough we have to turn on cams for meetings, now the person staring at you may be an AI deepfake

High-profile deepfake scams that were reported here at The Register and elsewhere last year may just be the tip of the iceberg. Attacks relying on spoofed faces in online meetings surged by 300 percent in 2024, it is claimed. iProov, a firm that just so happens to sell facial-recognition identity verification and …

[Neil Barnes]

M-M-M-Max Headroom

On Wednesday, I shall engage in my last company video meeting. Yay!

[Joe W]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

Good on ye!

I'm totally not envious. Seriously. Right...

[Neil Barnes]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

Rather annoyingly, this is the third time I have retired from this company. It's turning into a not-very-exciting ritual.

[Evil Auditor]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

"not-very-exiting", surely?

[MachDiamond]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

" It's turning into a not-very-exciting ritual."

What? No cake and free drinks anymore?

[Bebu sa Ware]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

While Max is a g-g-g-great option, my pick would be Red Dwarf's Holly† finally morphing into Queeg. :)

_{† the Norman Lovett version.}

[Eclectic Man]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

Surely Rimmer dressed in a Red-White check gingham dress (and Army Boots) I would be best?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KE0njnZXyY

[cyberdemon]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

A good friend of mine has the same thing to celebrate - because he's just been made redundant by the company we both worked for, which is imploding due to competition from China on one side, and international trade tariffs on the other.

And the idea of being asked to do yoga poses on webcam to prove one's humanity.. Sod that. Roll-on Armageddon. I can't be bothered to get a new job, i'll just wait for the apocalypse.

[Eclectic Man]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

cyberdemon: asked to do yoga poses on webcam

Umm, does he work for Only fans? Otherwise this sounds very suspect to me.

Deeply troubling.

[cyberdemon]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

No, it was a facetious extrapolation of what these AI human verification apps ask you to do, i.e. touch your nose, make a numeral 7 with your arms, etc.

It's all pointless because as soon as there is data collected of people passing these tests, the bots will pass them too

[Eclectic Man]

Re: M-M-M-Max Headroom

Phew! That's a relief.

Next time maybe give this 'bear of very little brain' a hint that you are not being serious with maybe a'Joke Alert' icon, or a '/s' ?

[Joe W]

I for one would totally like that

having a fake person for me to do my boring video call meetings. Complete with the guitar-playing-BOFHesque persona, and the headphone tapping plus static noise.

[Ordinary Donkey]

Can we at least get personal grooming deepfakes so we can roll out of bed and look professional?

[Evil Auditor]

It is not that I don't care who is on the other sides of video calls. I just quickly forget them again. And hence, for me it doesn't matter who or what it was. If it looks pleasant enough, bring it on!

_{Mine's to one with Recognising Faces for Dummies in its pocket}

[Anonymous Coward]

Where I work no one even uses theit cameras during online meetings.

[EricB123]

Nostradamus in Japan?

When I (an American engineer) was working with Japanese firms in the late 90's, they insisted I come physically to Japan for important design meetings. I used to think this was just a cultural thing, but after reading this article, perhaps they saw the future of deepfakes before anyone else.

[O'Reg Inalsin]

Re: Nostradamus in Japan?

Hate to say it, but that is actually an argument in favor of RTO, at least for meetings with content you don't want broadcasted. I apologize in advance for the insensitivity.

[MachDiamond]

Re: Nostradamus in Japan?

"Hate to say it, but that is actually an argument in favor of RTO, at least for meetings with content you don't want broadcasted."

I don't see it as an excuse to require RTO full time, but, yes, some things are better discussed off-line.

I'm used to doing things that take more than one day to accomplish so I find it less distracting to attend one meeting to thrash out what I need to be concentrating on and then going away to make it happen. Perhaps that's the best way to look at whether a position is a candidate for WFH or not. If you do many tasks a day that can change by the hour, being at the office could be better. It might also point at poor management that has no clue how to look ahead.