[Photo: Alex Blania CEO LinkedIn page]

Alex Blania (알렉스 블라니아), co-founder and CEO of Tools for Humanity, which develops the World proof-of-human network technology, recently appeared on crypto-focused investment firm Pantera Capital's podcast "Stateful" and predicted that within 3 months, and at most within 6 months, it will become impossible to tell whether the person you are speaking to by video is a deepfake.

Blania cited the recent release of a model that generates real-time video at 60 frames per second. He said methods that filter deepfakes using only software, including detection AI, will no longer work. As AI imitates humans more precisely, he stressed that "Proof of Human" to confirm a person is real will become the foundation underpinning online communication and transactions.

Blania also introduced a proof-of-human feature for video meetings that he said was developed with Zoom, which verifies that the other party is a previously authenticated real person instead of trying to detect deepfakes.

The feature he introduced works by matching real-time video from a meeting with images captured during authentication at an Orb and information from re-authentication on a mobile phone to confirm the person is the same individual. The re-authentication interval can vary depending on the level of security a company requires.

He said, "Recently, we have been getting a lot of inquiries, especially from financial institutions, and Zoom is also working directly with us so that major banks can use this technology," adding, "It is a level of interest we did not anticipate at all even 3 months ago."

Blania said that as AI agents spread rapidly, many websites are blocking agent access. He pointed to a situation in which one person sends multiple agents to secure restaurant reservations or concert tickets and then resells them, and said services and consumers could both be harmed if platforms cannot distinguish real users.

He said that if it can be confirmed that an agent represents a unique real person, platforms can set per-user limits on reservations or purchases and allow agent access. "If a website knows an agent is acting on behalf of a real person, it can respond completely differently," he said, adding that World ID could become a trust base for agent transactions.

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