[gostsamo]

Turn off the camera.

I think that deep learning algorithms that can transpose one's expressions on another face exist, but they are not widely used and definitely not in commercial applications. The only case where it was done was last year I think when the russian services presented a pretender for an Aleksey Navalni's associate in a video chat with EU members of parliament.

[sampkola]

Turning off the the camera makes sense. Its not the same as chatting face to face but it's a decent middle ground. I guess some sort of face transfer would be a step up from audio chat but it's really the mental barrier around talking to someone that makes taking the first step hard.