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Corporate Financial Impact of Deepfake Fraud
Estimated financial losses caused by AI-enabled deepfake incidents.
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Zoom teams up with World to verify humans in meeting
Meeting platform Zoom has announced a partnership with World, Sam Altman’s human ID verification company, to ensure that the people attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters. The threat is real and growing fast. The most dramatic example came in early 2024, when engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after an employee in Hong Kong authorized a series of wire transfers during what appeared to be a routine video call with the company’s CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call — except the victim — turned out to be an AI-generated deepfake. A similar attack hit a multinational firm in Singapore in 2025. Across the board, financial losses from deepfake-enabled fraud exceeded $200 million in just the first quarter of last year, according to one estimate, and the average loss per corporate incident now tops $500,000, according to security industry reports. So while deepfake video-call fraud may not be something most people ever encounter personally, it represents a serious risk for businesses, especially those that regularly conduct high-value transactions over video. World noted that while some efforts already exist to catch deepfakes in meetings, they are limited to analyzing video frames for telltale signs of AI manipulation. Both companies said that because video models are getting better, those frame-by-frame detection methods are increasingly unreliable. For this new feature, World uses its World ID Deep Face tech, which takes a three-pronged approach to verifying that a participant is a real person. It cross-references a signed image taken at the time of the user’s registration through World’s Orb device, a real-time face scan from the user’s device, and a live video frame visible to other meeting participants. It only verifies someone when all three things match, at which point a “Verified Human” badge appears on that participant’s title. (Yes, life is getting weird.) Zoom said that hosts can enable a Deep Face waiting room to require all participants to verify their identity. Participants can also request mid-call that someone verify themselves on the spot. “This integration is part of Zoom’s open ecosystem approach, giving customers more ways to build trust into their workflows based on what matters most for their use case,” Zoom spokesperson Travis Isaman said via email. Techcrunch event San Francisco, CA | October 13-15, 2026 Beyond Zoom, Altman’s World has been building partnerships with a range of co...
Tinder and Zoom offer 'proof of humanity' eye-scans to combat AI
Image source, ReutersByKali HaysTechnology reporterTinder will let users prove they are human and not robots by bringing advanced eye-scanning technology to the app amid rising fears over AI.Users of the dating app, as well as other major platforms such as video calling service Zoom, will be able to scan their irises to earn a "proof of humanity" badge attached to their profile or name.Through either an online app or an orb-shaped scanning device run by the World network people can submit to a scan of their iris, the coloured portion of the eye, in order to confirm they are human.World, formerly known as Worldcoin, is part of Tools for Humanity, a start-up co-founded and chaired by Sam Altman who is also the head of ChatGPT-maker OpenAI.Once a person is confirmed as human by the technology they receive a unique identification code which is stored on their smartphone and considered their World ID.Tinder and Zoom have encountered more problems with fake or malicious accounts and users over the last two years as improving AI technology has made it easier to impersonate human speech, voice and likeness.Fake profiles on Tinder, often referred to as "bots", are typically used to scam people out of money or their personal information.One user, Victoria Brooks, wrote last year on a personal blog she found Tinder overrun with bots looking to scam people.Brooks estimated 30% of Tinder profiles she'd encountered were "AI-enhanced, emotionally manipulative, algorithmically-optimized romance scammers". Such bot accounts use not only fake profile photos, but AI-generated scripts to chat with real users.Image source, ReutersImage caption, Tinder's owners Match Group are trying to eliminate fake profilesRomance scams saw people in the US lose more than $1bn last year, according to the Federal Trade Commission.Late last year, Tinder began requiring all users to submit a video selfie in order to confirm they were real people. The integration with World ID will be an additional way people can be verified on the app if they choose to do so.Yoel Roth, who leads trust and safety at Match Group, the owner of Tinder, said "Partnering with World ID is a natural next step" for the platform to help users "know the person on the other end is real."Zoom, which is widely used for video conferences in work settings, is more concerned with increasingly sophisticated deepfakes of people who may be known to a user.In 2024, a worker in Hong Kong was convinced by video deepfakes of his compa...
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Deepfake Detection in Video Calls | Identity Verification
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