As the price of generative AI normalizes, high-value fraud steadily becomes the only use case with an ROI high enough to justify the cost.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/05/chatgpt-images-deepfakes-fraud/687023/
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It's wild how committed AI companies are to burning down so much of the value we've gotten out of the internet over the last several decades. Think about all of the times you've transmitted a picture or scan of a document — your ID, a check, a contract, a form. If recipients can't trust or verify those docs, then they'll stop accepting them, and we'll have to go back to doing everything in person.
> we'll have to go back to doing everything in person.
That doesn't even solve the problem for many cases, since you can just print out the faked document...
The AI companies will almost certainly sell a replacement for much of this lost trust. AI-powered ID-verification services, or some such. And, of course, you'll only be able to benefit from it if you're willing to hand over more and more data about yourself.
@lrhodes Sadly, they're already ready for this: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116415151032472259
