How do AI-powered scams target your business? Imagine this: you get an urgent call. The voice on the other end sounds exactly like your CEO, perhaps a little stressed, asking you to immediately transfer a large sum of money to an unfamiliar account. Or perhaps it’s a video call, seemingly with your finance director, instructing […]
How VerifyLabsAI protects trust in an age of AI illusion In the world of journalism and media, truth (something that represents fact or reality) is the bedrock. Reporters, editors, and broadcasters are meant to use accurate information to generate news. This in turn shapes everything in the world around us, from peoples’ understanding of events […]
Unmasking machines: how VerifyLabs detects AI-generated content Artificial intelligence can sometimes feel like magic, right? Whether’s its black magic or the good type depends on who’s using it. At VerifyLabs, we believe that understanding the basics of this technology builds understanding of the power it brings. So, let’s explore how AI detection, particularly with VerifyLabs.AI, […]
The “deepfake dilemma”: understanding the threat and how VerifyLabsAI protects you Welcome, digital citizens! In a world where our lives are increasingly online, it’s more important than ever to know what’s real and what’s not. You’ve probably heard the term “deepfake” floating around—perhaps in a news story, a viral video, or a cautionary tale. But […]
The threat of AI-driven deepfakes has escalated from a future concern to an immediate crisis, with incidents in the past month revealing an alarming acceleration in financial fraud and social engineering. A report updated this week highlights a staggering 680% year-over-year increase in deepfake activity targeting call centres, with experts forecasting a potential 162% surge […]
Today artificial intelligence can create deepfakes so convincing they’d fool even your most eagle-eyed of colleagues. But here’s the clever bit: the very same technology causing the problem is also providing the best solution. That’s right—to beat AI-driven fakes, you need AI. Think of it like this: you wouldn’t send a human with a magnifying […]
Remember the early deepfakes? Those grainy, often-jiggling videos with obvious lip-sync errors? Fast forward to 2025, and those “jiggle and glitch” days are long gone. Today’s deepfakes are sophisticated, convincing and the new weapon of choice for AI-driven criminals. Deepfakes—a worldwide playground for criminals Gone are the days when deepfakes were just about fake celebrity […]
We’ve all heard the warnings about deepfakes – hyper-realistic fake images, videos, and audio created by AI. The scary truth? They’re often too good for the human eye to detect. Our brains are wired to quickly process faces and familiar patterns, but AI-generated fakes are specifically designed to fool those very systems. So, if our […]
It’s evening in a corporate office in a major world capital. The hustle and bustle has thinned as colleagues start to go home. An executive sits at their desk, wanting to tie up due diligence before leaving for the nightly commute. The exec is examining a new client’s details and is uploading a scan of […]
We asked Gemini 2.5 Flash to use everything it knows (including the latest research and common limitations of current generative AI), to tell us how to spot deepfakes that are too good for the human eye to detect. Gemini had a 3-second think about things that then said that the giveaways often lie in subtle, […]