That Smoking-Gun Video? It's Not Evidence. It's a Suspect.

How deepfake technology is evolving from a curiosity to a systematic verification threat For developers in the computer vision and biometrics space, the recent surge in deepfake incidents - particularly in sensitive environments like schools and corporate finance - represents a fundamental shift in our threat model. We are moving from an era where "realism" was the primary goal of generative models to an era where "verifiability" must be the primary goal of investigative software.