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This reminds me of the scam reported on here last week, where scammers raised a false large invoice, then invited the mid-level manager to a zoom meeting where
by lifeisstillgood 3y ago
This reminds me of the scam reported on here last week, where scammers raised a false large invoice, then invited the mid-level manager to a zoom meeting where the CFO and CEO of the public company were on the call (very public as they needed enough video to deepfake them) and told the guy to approve the invoice.
The gitlab thing is just “harmless” fun but real scams will force chnage - I predict in five years
- every large and maybe small companies will have public private key based approvals (not “I approve” in an email from an iPhone).
- PKIs will then be everywhere (at last!)
- meetings will be recorded and transcribed (which will have huge knock on effects)
- the push back against remote work will be real and large. Not sure what side I am on
- john-radio 3y agoThis is not a deepfake, though, to be clear; it's a YouTube video of a real GitLab data science staff meeting.
- geek_at 3y agothey were talking about the scam, not the gitlab meeting simulator
- armchairhacker 3y agoWhy the pushback against remote work? When it works it works, and it’s cheaper for everyone involved.
- bogota 3y agoThere wont be. Not any more than we already have. The comment above you is pure sensationalism based on nothing.
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- midasuni 3y agoI suspect the argument would be you can’t deep fake in-person interactions
- lars512 3y agoI mean, as long as your deepfake is contributing constructively…
- rickdeckard 3y agoWhich is just a weird line of thought, leading to "any kind of meaningful decision will only be made when all involved persons are physically in the same room", which results in a chain of meetings between people of different layers and signed papers changing hands. So in conclusion, the argument is that the existence and threat of deepfakes will cause companies to abandon digital transformation entirely and move back to the 80s...
- falcor84 3y agoPaper signatures are of course easy to forge. If anything, I think this will lead to more focus on digital attestation. Maybe even [swallowing a bit of vomit]... blockchain.
- lagniappe 3y agoI've been deep faking in-person as a person who knows what they're doing for years
- 0xEF 3y agoI think it depends on the industry. For example, I work in manufacturing and we have a sales team that is in the office once a week, if we are lucky. The disconnect in communication between sales, management (who is also mostly remote) and production is absolutely massive and causing issues that did not exist prior to their current remote status. Examples include that both management and sales are often sluggish to respond when production needs clarification for custom work, and that the typical manager or salesperson's comprehension of the products being sold is atrophied simply because their exposure has diminished in recent years. In the context of our business, it would be beneficial if everyone was in the building working side by side and since only two members or our sales team are "outside" sales, there's not a compelling reason for the rest to be working from home. On the flip side, my wife does medical coding, which is entirely remote and doesn't require a constant line of communication to management or your coworkers, for that matter, unless there is a problem, most of which can be rectified with an email, chat or Zoom meeting. There is no compelling reason for her to show up to an office to do computer-based work that can be done literally anywhere with an Internet connection. As the US moves forward with continued remote work, I think it's important that companies be honest with the realities of the market they are in and plan accordingly.
- ponector 3y agoIf the company is bigger - then even with forbidden remote work you'll have all different divisions scattered across multiple locations and have the same communication issues as with remote team. Turns out the issue is not in the remote\office style but in the processes applied to the organization.
- cranium 3y agoYou can be at the office and forced to do a zoom meeting because some people are in another office/country.
- geraldwhen 3y agoI haven’t had a fully collocated team in 15 years. The only purpose of RTO is tax breaks and stealth layoffs.
- diggan 3y ago> The only purpose of RTO is tax breaks and stealth layoffs God forbid there might be actual people (including developers) who prefer to work in an office with others. Impossible!
- mfost 3y agoThey are free to return to the office and work with each other in person then.
- diggan 3y agoRight, so there are more reasons for RTO than tax breaks and stealth layoffs then. Good to know.
- srveale 3y agoRTO usually means mandated, company wide RTO, not "there's an office if you want." So no, not right.
- eru 3y agoGoing by my own experience, everything being remotely or everything being in the office (regularly, but not necessary all the time) works best. It's hard to make a hybrid approach work, where some people are mostly in the office, and some people are always remote. However the extra burden falls mostly on the remote people, so I see not much of a reason to disallow people from going remote.
- lagt_t 3y agoAlmost all companies have ERP systems with 2FA and compliance teams, there is no more "I approve" emails...
- llm_trw 3y ago> - the push back against remote work will be real and large. Not sure what side I am on I'm at a small company where we've started recording, transcribing and taking minutes of all meetings with AI. Then that gets fed into a RAG system and we can see what's been said when. If you're doing it in person than all of that information will just float out of everyones heads by the end of the week. There's a push _for_ remote work because it's actually convenient to find out what you need to do and when it needs to get finished by. The next thing we're doing is buying everyone an intous screens so we can share whiteboards which is the last thing that in person meetings were good for.
- ponector 3y ago> recording, transcribing and taking minutes of all meetings with AI. Then that gets fed into a RAG system and we can see what's been said when. Could you please share details on tooling for this?
- llm_trw 3y agoNot much tooling I do it all on Linux. I use audacity to capture the audio stream live, whisper.cpp with person segmentation to extract the text with notations on who was talking and a fine tuned llama model which is trained on data specific to the companies market to extract the minutes. It's a couple of passes for the model to write the prompts to extract the data into minutes. The RAG system is just untrained sbert weights of every sentence in the recording and minutes shoved into the vector postgres. Queries are @mentions in the company chat. Basically a bunch of python scripts held together by duct tape and chewing gum.
- api 3y agoRemote work makes it easier to transcribe every communication. As for PKI you need that anyway and we mostly already have it. We just need a good auth chain for transactions.
- michaelbuckbee 3y agoAnother live video scam I've seen is done via streaming. Scammers will take a long pre-recorded video feed of an on stage interview with a famous person (Elon Musk) and then stream it inside a frame and account that's hyping a crypto launch or something.