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75 million deepfakes blocked: Persona leads the corporate fight against hiring fraud
Persona blocks 75 million fake job candidates as AI hiring fraud explodes across corporate America, forcing companies to deploy advanced identity verification tools to combat deepfake infiltration.
As remote work has become the norm, a shadowy threat has emerged in corporate hiring departments: sophisticated AI-powered fake candidates who can pass video interviews, submit convincing resumes, and even fool human resources professionals into offering them jobs. Now, companies are racing to deploy advanced identity verification technologies to combat what security experts describe as an escalating crisis of candidate fraud, driven largely by generative AI tools and coordinated efforts by foreign actors, including North Korean state-sponsored groups seeking to infiltrate American businesses. Song’s approach to combating AI-generated fraud relies on what he calls a “multimodal” strategy that examines identity verification across three distinct layers: the input itself (photos, videos, documents), the environmental context (device characteristics, network signals, capture methods), and population-level patterns that might indicate coordinated attacks.
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