Nicole Perlroth

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1,851 appearances 14 recordings 2 series first heard Mar 2025 last heard 14 Jul

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To Catch a Thief: North Korea On Our Payroll · Ep. 6: The North Korea Model · 14 Jul 2026 podcast

Can I just stop for a second?

Yeah.

Why do you have a Korean accent?

In the blink of an eye, the call drops.

Ilya is left smiling with a little shake of his head.

He actually figured out what was going on pretty quickly.

He said he'd read articles about North Korean IT workers.

And after his post went viral, he's been hearing more and more from friends who've had experiences with DPRK deepfakes.

My friend Emily is a professional recruiter, and she told me that they get four or five of these types of people every week, and they identify them with a tag called FAF, fake as FAF.

The problem is the dead giveaway here, that Korean accent, it's disappearing.

Thanks to AI, freely available tools can now modulate accents in real time.

And yes, there are legitimate use cases for this, helping people who've lost their voice, making speech clearer across languages, protecting people from harassment or identification online, but North Korea has found a darker use case.

Using AI to sand down the one clue interviewers were trained to listen for and make a state-sponsored operative sound like any other remote worker on Zoom.

Here's Hani again.

We've also seen voice modulation.

So deep fakes have many flavors.

It can be visual, but it can also be auditory.

So one of the things that we've been seeing is real-time voice modulation where the accent can be concealed.

So it doesn't have that very strong accent.

So the visual is real, but the audio is manipulated.

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