Mistaken AI-dentity

Job interviews are going high-tech, and interviewers may soon become impersonal.

An interviewer called Griffin was so convincing in testing 54 applicants that they didn’t notice he was artificial intelligence (AI)-generated, the New York Post (NYP) reported.

Bay Area company Tavus, which created Griffin, said it fooled 48 percent of interviewees who thought they were talking to a real person.

Griffin generates every pixel of every frame in real time from a single reference image, making it blink and breathe naturally, react in real time, interrupt a person, adjust to new subject matter, and be interrupted without losing its train of thought, Tavus said, according to NYP.

Meanwhile, a 49-year-old bricklayer in Maranhão, Brazil, decided to personally meet a woman from Belo Horizonte, almost 2,000 kilometers away, to marry her.

Edimar Martins met Jessica Oliveira through her TikTok account in 2020 and viewed the woman’s videos portraying her as a farmer looking for a romantic partner, Yahoo Life reported.

In one video that has since been deleted, she promised financial support to whoever agreed to live with her.

Martins fell in love with Oliveira. To pay for his travel to Belo Horizonte, he sold all his belongings.

When Martins arrived in Belo Horizonte on 11 October, he could not find Oliveira and went to a local radio station for help, according to Yahoo Life.

He was told the woman did not exist but was actually an AI-generated character.

The person operating Oliveira’s TikTok account posted a video on 14 October confirming that Jessica was AI-generated but denied ever communicating with Martins, Yahoo Life reported.

The account owners said Oliveira was created to generate online engagement for commercial purposes and not to seek relationships.

Disappointed and broke, Martins went to the city hall, where he was given assistance to return home.