What would practically move the needle is enough money to buy an A100 in the cloud, or even 4-6 A100s to produce a Full HD video suitable for a regular "high quality" video call; typical video calls use half as much, and run at much less than 60 fps.

An A100 is $1.15 per hour at Paperspace. It's so cheap it could be profitably used to scam you out of rather modest amounts, like a few thousand dollars.