Intelligence: Deepfakes – the next cyber threat?
Recent technological advances and increased dependence on video-based communication have accelerated the ability for fraudsters to create realistic audio and video fakes, also known as deepfakes, using artificial intelligence learning. Post investigates what threats deepfake technology poses for insurers and policyholders.
Deepfake is a digital manipulation of images or video that make it appear like a person did something they did not do in a “hyper-realistic way” to the point that an unaided observer cannot detect
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