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TechRadar Pro | May 29th 2025

Adam Maurer, COO of Connecting Software and Francisco Rodrigues, Product Manager for Truth Enforcer recently co-authored an opinion piece in TechRadar Pro, speaking about the dangers that exist in skyrocketing levels of digital document fraud.

We may not think much about it, but businesses need to rely on digital and physical documents every day. Decisions, purchases, and deals worth millions hinge on information in official documents being trustworthy. In the new world that AI has brought about, forged or altered documents are becoming not only very convincing, but also available to anyone with basic AI tools.

The news cycle has been replete with cases of AI being used to fake crucial documents like IDs – and these only scratch the surface. AI has given fraudsters the tools for fabricating invoices, tax forms, investment contracts, risk assessments, financial audits, and procurement documents among others.

They argued that when businesses have no way to verify vital documents, they not only compromise their security, but undermine the trust that is necessary for operating in the modern world.

While cases of significant fraud will be rare given the layers of internal security and regulations that prevent decision making being centered on one person or one document, the real damage this will do will be to trust. Without a reliable and quick way to authenticate documents businesses may have to add hours into processes of checking and re-verifying documents, even when they are perfectly legitimate.

At best, this will add a significant inefficiency to many businesses, wasting time and effort – but at worst, it can grind operations almost to a standstill – costing businesses the critical advantage of time against their competitors.

Ultimately this problem will be one that will be fixed not only by tech, but government regulation that requires the necessary transparency for stakeholders to have trust in the files they rely on.

The truth is, AI forgery is not a business-by-business level problem, but a systemic one that will need higher level regulation to address. Eventually, it will become critical for governments to impose baseline metadata standards and mandatory verification technology that can make vital public documentation verifiable by everyone.
We cannot afford to regard AI forgeries as a distant problem – the threat of serious harm being caused by an AI-doctored document grows daily. Operating a business or running a government where we cannot trust the documents we depend on is an impossible task. Embracing these technologies not only allows us to head off this potential crisis of trust, but can open new opportunities to make the organizations we rely on more transparent.

To learn more about our work in improving the level of verifiability of critical documents, visit our Truth Enforcer page: https://www.connecting-software.com/truth-enforcer-authenticity-for-any-digital-information/