If it's as good as the AI videos in our security training, then the fake person was really good.

On a related note, trying to get my parents to understand that they can no longer trust people in videos, even if it's me or my 8yo niece begging for ransom money, has been a real struggle.

I wonder how the AI video handles unusual requests for actions. If anyone remembers some of the classic 419 scam baiting sites where the scambait people got the scammers to take a real photo of themselves with a shoe balanced on top of their head... If I think I'm talking to an AI, I might make a similar request.

If it's a close friend or colleague and they get such a ridiculous request from me like "Hey just to confirm you're a real human, show me an object from your desk and balance it on top of your head", they'll understand why I'm doing it and why it's mildly humorous in the present threat environment.

Read the article! They used "pre-recorded videos of previous victims the target is acquainted with to simulate a legitimate call – except that the audio would appear to malfunction."

So it is not an AI video here.

I said 'fake', not AI. Pre-recorded video of a person from the other end with broken audio, that's a known scam technique that's been used for close to 15 years now to bait horny men on the internet for extortion and other purposes. Very well known threat model. The scammers collect a set of attractive looking pre-recorded videos of some camgirl and run it in a loop as a virtual webcam device, then pretend to have microphone/audio malfunctions.

If I'm put into a meeting with someone I recognize and their audio is broken I'm going to attempt to get an answer from them by text chat on what's going on before I go clicking any links or downloading anything.