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AI fakers exposed in tech dev recruitment: postmortem

A full-remote security startup nearly hired a backend engineer who doesn’t exist, after a candidate used an AI filter as an on-screen disguise in video interviews. Learnings for tech companies

Since every candidate in this article is a cheater with an AI-generated mask of a different face, and a false professional identity, we share all the made-up resumes, CVs, videos, and photos, to give a sense of how things played out. With the rise of LLMs in the past couple of years, Dawid and Klaudia spotted an opportunity to create a tool that works in the same way as they searched for security vulnerabilities: looking across the broader codebase, checking how components interact, which parts could be insecure, and more. By the end of the recruitment process, Vidoc believed they had nearly been played, and hadcome worryingly close to extending an offer to a fake candidate using a false identity in their documents, and an AI filter to mask their face on screen.

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