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Now candidates are sending avatars to attend them. **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary AI avatars are appearing in job interviews on both sides: recruiters deploy them to conduct first-round screenings, while candidates use them to attend interviews — sometimes to mask language barriers. A Sydney recruiter has disqualified three such candidates after detecting unnaturally polished, consistent answers. The trend is accelerating: 91% of US hiring managers have encountered suspected AI-generated answers, 38.5% of candidates in one study were flagged for AI-assisted behavior, and Gartner projects one in four candidate profiles globally will be fake by 2028. Palo Alto Networks found it takes as little as 70 minutes for a novice to build a convincing fake candidate. Employers are responding by reintroducing mandatory in-person rounds, but this disadvantages international and remote candidates. The piece argues the real problem is that automated screening was already broken, and candidates gaming it with better tools is a predictable outcome rather than a moral failure. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of job candidates were flagged for AI-assisted behavior in live interviews? 38.5% of candidates were flagged for AI-assisted behavior across 19,368 live interviews analysed between July 2025 and January 2026. Separately, 91% of US hiring managers reported having encountered or suspected AI-generated answers during online interviews, according to a 2026 Greenhouse report. _Recruiters and hiring teams navigating this shift track the latest detection strategies and policy changes on daily.dev._ ### How long does it take to build a deepfake candidate capable of passing a video interview? Palo Alto Networks found it takes as little as 70 minutes for someone with no image manipulation experience to build a fake candidate capable of passing a video interview. This low barrier to entry is a key driver of the rapid growth in AI-assisted interview fraud. _Developers building or evaluating interview verification tools can follow the deepfake detection space on daily.dev._ ### What share of job candidate profiles does Gartner predict will be fake by 2028? Gartner projects that by 2028 one in four job candidate profiles globally will be fake, encompassing AI-generated profiles, deepfake video interviews, and fabricated work histories. Nearly two-thirds of candidates already use AI in applications, and 87% of US hiring managers use AI in hiring. _Teams building hiring pipelines or identity verification tools watch how this projection reshapes recruitment tooling on daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [I was interviewed by an AI bot for a job](https://daily.dev/posts/i-was-interviewed-by-an-ai-bot-for-a-job-g2irudsrt) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [How AI is reshaping hiring on both sides](https://daily.dev/posts/how-ai-is-reshaping-hiring-on-both-sides-jurq5il1x) · All Things Open · 6 upvotes · 0 comments - [The AI Arms Race in Technical Interviews Is Escalating](https://daily.dev/posts/the-ai-arms-race-in-technical-interviews-is-escalating-xaaoglm3b) · IEEE Spectrum · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/recruiters-are-using-ai-avatars-to-run-interviews-now-candidates-are-sending-avatars-to-attend-them-o0c2zbvom) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Recruiters are using AI avatars to run interviews. 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