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AI Company Claims Its System Can Pass as Human on Video Calls

(2 hours ago) · 1 source · Summarized by CryptoBipto

Tavus, an AI company, says its product called Griffin can fool people into thinking they are speaking with a real human during video calls. The company claims the AI can generate realistic video and audio in real time, making it difficult for participants to distinguish it from a live person.

WHY IT MATTERS

This story matters because trust and identity are foundational to how people interact online, including in the crypto world. Think of a video call as one of the last ways you can be fairly sure you are talking to a real person. If AI can convincingly impersonate humans on video, it becomes harder to verify who you are dealing with. In crypto, where transactions are often irreversible and scams already exist, realistic AI impersonation could make fraud more convincing. It also highlights why technologies like digital identity verification and blockchain-based proof of identity are areas of growing interest.

Tavus, a company focused on AI-generated video, has announced that its system called Griffin is capable of conducting video calls where participants reportedly cannot tell they are interacting with an AI rather than a real person.

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