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Can AI Detect Deepfake Video Calls in Real Time?

Split-screen video call showing a real person and a deepfake impersonator with detection overlay flagging synthetic regions
Dmytro Koziatynskyi
Founder & CEO

Your CFO joins a Zoom call and asks the finance team to wire $25 million. The face looks right. The voice matches. Forty minutes later, the real CFO finds out nothing was scheduled. The Arup fraud in early 2024 unfolded exactly this way because detection did not save them. No Zoom plugin flagged the deepfake. No audio analyzer caught the clone.

The obvious question follows: can AI detect deepfake video calls in real time? And if the tools exist, why did Arup lose $25 million?

Deepfake Social Engineering: When You Can't Trust Your Own Eyes

Deepfake social engineering - split view comparing a real person and their AI-generated deepfake clone
Dmytro Koziatynskyi
Founder & CEO

Your CFO joins a video call with the Hong Kong finance team. She asks them to execute a series of wire transfers totaling $25 million. Her face, her voice, her mannerisms. The team complies. The entire call was a deepfake.

This happened to Arup, the British engineering firm, in early 2024. The attackers recreated the CFO and several other executives using publicly available video footage. Every person on that call except the target was synthetic.