Get ready for the rise of imposter employees
Remote work and video job interviews has ushered in a new world of employees who aren't who they say they are.
Before COVID-19, job interviews took place in person and new hires worked in the office, for the most part.
But with remote work came an increase in remote hiring, from the job application to onboarding and everything in between. Many employees have never been in the same room as their employers and co-workers, and that has opened the door for a rise in imposter employees.
The FBI is concerned; you should be too.
Companies have been increasingly complaining to the FBI about prospective employees using real-time deepfake video and deepfake audio for remote interviews, along with stolen personal information, to land jobs at American companies.
Shockingly, many of these imposter employees are North Koreans!
Mike’s List of Brilliantly Bad Ideas
1. This watch watches your alcohol consumption
Tokyoflash has introduced a wristwatch you can use to check your blood alcohol level. Called the Kisai Intoxicated Breathalyzer Watch, the wearable is not a legal or accurate breathalyzer, but mainly provides data for a built-in sobriety game. The watch has a cap over the sensor, which you remove before pressing a button and blowing into the watch. The watch shows your drunkenness on a scale of one to ten, plus a color system where green means sober, yellow means buzzed and red means you’re shitfaced.
2. New camera app auto-removes unsightly tourists
Software that removes people from the background of your photos has existed for years. But this camera app does it automatically, using a smarter approach. Stillgram assumes that the person you focus on is the subject, and all moving people in the background would ruin your shot — so it uses AI to replace them with details from the background.
3. Bad robots: How about prosthetic lizard legs for snakes?
Maker and YouTuber Allen Pan has an unusual hobby: He builds legs for snakes. His best work is a long tube with lizard legs, which the snakes really seem to enjoy walking in.
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