• Philippe23@lemmy.ca
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    3 months ago

    My guess would be that they needed to get a mid-point between existing photos of the guy whose identity they stole and the guy that would show up in the video interviews.

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      3 months ago

      Very unlikely, If you read and refer to the article. The identity was stolen but the pic is a stock photo.

      The two images at the top of this story are a stock photo and what KnowBe4 says is the AI fake based on the stock photo.

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        3 months ago

        My thought on that is that they needed a new location so their image didn’t just look like a modified version of another of the victim’s public images, so NK searched for a stock photo for a professional looking location. Ars has just located the stock image they started from.