Deepfakes are coming for your KYC flow I've spent a lot of time lately running suspicious images through AI or Not profile photos, government ID scans, the kind of stuff that shows up in fraud reports. What I've noticed over the past few months is that the gap between "obviously fake" and "passes a casual check" has basically closed. The Atlantic piece that dropped last week made that concrete in a way I hadn't seen written up this clearly before: ChatGPT's image generator is being used to produce fake identity documents . Not clumsy Photoshop jobs. Documents that are clearing automated KYC pipelines. If you've shipped user onboarding with identity verification and a huge slice of devs reading this have this is directly your problem. TL;DR: Generative AI just made document fraud cheap and scalable. Automated KYC flows that rely on image pattern-matching alone are increasingly inadequate. Here's what the attack surface looks like and what engineers should be thinking about.…