🚨 $25,000,000 disappeared after one Zoom call. The person on screen wasn't real
At Blockchain Community Day, Sasha Pitkevich (Blockchain Lead, EPAM) broke down how much deepfakes are already costing the world:
▫️ a cloned CEO voice cost a bank in the UAE $35,000,000 – the largest confirmed deepfake loss in the world
▫️ a fake Joe Biden audio clip racked up millions of listens
▫️ a fake "explosion" photo near the Pentagon knocked down stock indices
💰 Total for 2025 alone – about $200,000,000 in damage worldwide.
If video and voice are no longer proof – then what is? Sasha answers that in her talk "Permanent Evidence in a Mutable World."
👉 Full talk: https://youtu.be/g4SCSRkPJ_Y
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