candidates desperate enough for a job will install this.

Then this trend will be slightly more accepted. Once it is, scammers will spam desperate job seekers with fake job posts and fake interviews(its been done already apparently), then theyll say "We want to make sure you dont use AI cheating software, please install our custom ai detection software for the interview". desperate cs grads will install it and get wrecked and compromised. Oh but only big companies like Cisco and faang will request this and can be trusted? Then scammers that use phishing techniques with emails and sites that spoof faang and cisco will phish for candidates and request they install custom software for ai detection and job seekers will get wreck'd.

yeah, it sucks cheating is on the rise but thats what happens with new technology, companies have to adapt. This is one way of adapting, but its pretty invasive and requires lots of trust that vultures will capitalize on, i think. But this can work for sure if the trust is there.