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A single deepfake scam campaign on YouTube racked up roughly two hundred million views last year. Two hundred million. And now YouTube is handing every creator over eighteen a tool to scan whether th Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/youtube-just-made-every-creator-a-deepfake-cop-heres-why-investigators-should-be

A deepfake video of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spread across social media, claiming Italy had completely severed diplomatic ties with Israel. Detection tools flagged it as A.I.-generated with confidence levels Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/meloni-deepfake-sparks-diplomatic-crisis-and-detection-tools-caught-it-too-late

In January, a high school principal in Baltimore had his life turned upside down. Someone created a fake audio clip of him making racist remarks. It went viral. He was placed on administrative leave. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-facial-recognition-tool-is-lying-to-you-why-50-of-deepfakes-slip-past-inves

A security firm called GetReal recently surveyed organizations across multiple industries and found that eight out of ten have already encountered A.I. deepfakes or impersonation attempts. Nearly half said they deal with Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfakes-just-broke-your-evidence-workflow-and-you-probably-havent-noticed

A video lands on your desk showing a suspect confessing to a crime. The lighting's even, the face is perfectly framed, skin tones match the background flawlessly. And that perfection — that polish — Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/face-swap-goes-mainstream-why-too-clean-video-is-now-your-biggest-red-flag

N.I.S.T. just tested how well A.I. can guess your age from a photo. The best algorithm in the bunch missed by less than three and a half years on average. But for some groups of people, that miss got Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/nist-just-exposed-the-age-estimation-number-vendors-dont-want-you-to-see

Every time you open a banking app and snap a selfie to prove you're you, a decision gets made in about two to five seconds. Match, or no match. Your account opens, or it doesn't. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-2-second-math-that-decides-if-your-face-is-really-you

Thirty states have now passed laws targeting deepfakes. The E.U. starts enforcing its own rules in August. And the detection technology those laws assume exists? It isn't ready y Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-laws-just-hit-30-states-your-verification-process-wont-survive-court

A judge in California threw out an entire civil case after one side deliberately introduced a deepfake as evidence. That wasn't a hypothetical. It already happened. If you've ev Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-evidence-just-got-a-case-tossed-and-youtube-quietly-became-your-first-l

Most people assume the smartest algorithm wins the facial recognition game. But a ninety-nine percent accurate system can't tell you who someone is if the photo you fed it was blurry, badly lit, or shot from the wrong an Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-facial-recognition-isnt-broken-your-source-photos-are

A man in Singapore sat down for a Zoom call with someone who looked and sounded exactly like Prime Minister Lawrence Wong. By the time the call ended, he'd transferred the equivalent of fifteen million Malaysian ringgit Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-pm-cost-him-rm15m-on-zoom-your-workflow-is-next

A U.S.-based biometrics company just announced it's targeting one billion identity verifications in a single country — Nigeria — within the next couple of years. Not a million. Not a hundred million. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/billion-scan-bombshell-the-quiet-biometrics-shift-nigeria-singapore-and-dhs-just

A scammer needs three seconds of someone's voice to clone it with eighty-five percent accuracy. Three seconds. That's less audio than a voicemail greeting. If that makes you un Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-fraud-just-tripled-to-1-1b-and-youre-looking-for-the-wrong-thing

A judge in California caught a deepfake video that a plaintiff submitted as witness testimony in court. The judge spotted it — not because of any screening protocol, not because of any detection software, but because the Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/deepfake-nearly-indicted-an-innocent-person-courts-have-zero-protocols-to-stop-t

Nine journalists and voice actors just sued nine of the biggest tech companies on the planet. Their claim is simple. These companies took their voices — without asking — fed them into A.I. models, an Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/big-tech-stole-their-voices-to-train-ai-now-illinois-law-could-cost-billions

A single round of J.P.E.G. compression can erase nearly a third of the evidence that proves a face is fake. Not the face itself. Not the expression or the skin tone. The invisible mathematical finger Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-3-forensic-checks-that-expose-a-deepfake-your-eyes-will-never-catch

A dating app asks you to hold up your driver's license, then take a video selfie. An algorithm compares your face to the photo on that I.D. in seconds. That same technology — the exact same kind of o Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-the-new-password-and-nobody-asked-if-it-should-be

The last time you swiped right on a dating app, you probably didn't think twice about that selfie verification prompt. But according to PropertyWire research, more than six in ten people Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-the-new-password-and-nobodys-asking-why

A genuine video of someone talking produces a math score of about zero point sixteen when you measure how tightly their lip movements sync with their voice. A lip-synced deepfake scores around zero point six three. Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-deepfake-type-investigators-keep-missing-and-why-its-about-to-dominate-fraud

Congress just funded a permanent biometric surveillance system inside the Department of Homeland Security. Not through a debate on the Senate floor. Through a budget line item most people never Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/dhs-just-made-facial-recognition-permanent-and-nobody-noticed

Nearly three out of four air travelers now say they'd rather scan their face than hand over a passport. Vancouver International just became the first airport in Canada to let passengers board a plane in seconds — no docu Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-is-now-your-boarding-pass-and-73-of-flyers-just-said-yes

A child's Social Security number is fifty-one times more likely to be used by a synthetic identity thief than an adult's. Not because kids have better credit. Because kids don't check their credit at Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/the-fake-people-fooling-your-fraud-team-why-a-perfect-id-match-is-the-red-flag-y

A California judge threw out a housing dispute case after discovering that the plaintiffs had submitted a deepfake of a real witness. The woman's voice was disjointed. Her face was fuzzy and emotionl Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/federal-judges-just-gutted-the-its-real-defense-and-investigators-are-next

Three seconds of audio. That's all it took. According to McAfee researchers, three seconds of someone's voice — a single "hello" on a phone call — was enough to build a clone that matched the origina Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/3-seconds-of-audio-a-95-voice-clone-why-investigators-cant-trust-hello-anymore

A photo of your face can fool a security camera. According to researchers at Mitek Systems, A.I. correctly spotted a fake biometric — a printed photo, a silicone mask, even a deepfake video — ninety-six percent of the ti Read the full article: https://www.caracomp.com/podcasts/your-face-unlocks-nothing-the-3-hidden-layers-deciding-who-gets-through-that-doo