A spelling mistake like the wrongly placed comma “please ,I was” is also unlikely for any attack that’s sophisticated enough to be a deepfake attempt.
I agree with the other points, but not this: sophistication is not a scalar. It’s quite possible to have access to sophisticated tools (which replicate and scale easily), but be sloppy or bad at English orthography (and not realize it).
I don’t think this is useful evidence for deep-fake scam over video-replay scam or vice-versa, but it could easily be evidence for either scam over actual help attempt. It depends entirely on how out of character such a misplaced comma would be for this particular friend.
At the moment deep-fake technology does not replicate and scale easily. Those attacks where it gets used are likely either high-stakes espionage or about stealing a significant amount of money.
This is one of those “The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed” situations. Training is hard and expensive. Using is not. Whether you need to retrain for a given target is an architectural decision—it does make it harder to train (but sublinearly in targets).
I agree with the other points, but not this: sophistication is not a scalar. It’s quite possible to have access to sophisticated tools (which replicate and scale easily), but be sloppy or bad at English orthography (and not realize it).
I don’t think this is useful evidence for deep-fake scam over video-replay scam or vice-versa, but it could easily be evidence for either scam over actual help attempt. It depends entirely on how out of character such a misplaced comma would be for this particular friend.
At the moment deep-fake technology does not replicate and scale easily. Those attacks where it gets used are likely either high-stakes espionage or about stealing a significant amount of money.
This is one of those “The future is already here — it’s just not evenly distributed” situations. Training is hard and expensive. Using is not. Whether you need to retrain for a given target is an architectural decision—it does make it harder to train (but sublinearly in targets).