Synthetic media at scale
Cheap, convincing fake images, video and voices, used for fraud and influence.
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Facts
- Lane
- Media and creative
- Wave
- 7 of 12 (build order, not a date)
- Needs
- 11 boxes all the way back through hard links
- Unlocks
- 2 boxes downstream through hard links
- Leverage
- None: already built
- Cluster
- Assistants and the public
- When
- Here since 2024
Evidence as of October 2026
Surfshark counts about $3.7bn in recorded deepfake fraud losses since 2020, 89% of it in 2025 and the first half of 2026.
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Recorded deepfake fraud losses: about $2.5bn in 2025.
Timeline note
Recorded deepfake fraud losses jumped from 2024.
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