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Re:Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via... by croes on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:25AM (#38570111)
We will get a whole new level of fake news.

Online meetings for important things are now unsecure because you can't be sure the other people are who they claim to be.

Re:Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via... by nuz on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:36AM (#38570272)
People can lie, people can send emails that look like they're from your boss. People now know deepfakes are a thing and have an immunity from trusting suspicious online meetings where your boss acts different than they usually do. Etc etc. It's not as big of a threat as people want to make it out to be
Re:Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via... by DeIlliad on Friday December 08, 2023 @10:42AM (#38570335)
People routinely fall for lies and get phished from those emails that look like they're from your boss. Every year there are a handful of high profile tech companies that get hacked because someone you would think should know better falls for a phishing scam. I think this is a bigger threat than people are making it out to be.
Re:Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via... by croes on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:12PM (#38571381)
We will get "recordings" were people will plot the great reset.

We already got fake audio of news anchors apologizing for years of lies.

We will get a lot more of that.

Re:Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via... by jayd16 on Friday December 08, 2023 @11:45AM (#38571039)
Security for a video call is from the user account not visual verification.
Re:Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via... by croes on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:38PM (#38571719)
Should be but people can easily be fooled.
Re:Gaussian Head Avatar: Ultra High-Fidelity Head Avatar via... by sbarre on Friday December 08, 2023 @12:46PM (#38571818)
People get their company accounts compromised all the time.

It's one thing to get a poorly-worded email from your CFO asking for company bank info, but it's a whole other thing to be asked over a Zoom video call by who you think is the right person, but it's a fake gaussian splat avatar.

There's already precedent for scammers doing similar things using voice deepfaking over phone calls. This could be a whole new level of phishing.