Not the technology itself maybe, but it does seems relevant to state of the business environment to point out this fraud was performed largely by using a servic

Not the technology itself maybe, but it does seems relevant to state of the business environment to point out this fraud was performed largely by using a service created for practically this use case. Sure, they could have made up the interview from scratch, but this company obviously provided at least a valuable facilitation, and arguably the AI hype is the reason anyone bothered with executing the idea in the first place. Character.ai claiming they didn't want this sort of stuff is like early youtube insisting they didn't want people to upload clips from the Simpsons.