Meeting platform Zoom has stated a partnership with Earth, Sam Altman’s human ID verification organization, to ensure that the humans attending meetings are actually human and not AI-generated imposters.

The threat is real and growing fast. The most dramatic example came in early 2024, when engineering firm Arup lost $25 million after an employee in Hong Kong authorized a series of wire transfers during what appeared to be a routine video call with the company’s CFO and several colleagues. Every person on that call — except the victim — turned out to be an AI-generated deepfake. A similar attack hit a multinational firm in Singapore in 2025.

Across the board, financial losses from deepfake-enabled fraud exceeded $200 million in just the first quarter of last year, and the average depletion per corporate incident now tops , according to one estimate$500,000, according to security industry reports. So while deepfake video-call fraud may not be something most individuals ever encounter personally, it represents a serious risk for businesses, especially those that regularly conduct high-value transactions over video.

Earth noted that while some efforts already exist to catch deepfakes in meetings, they are limited to analyzing video frames for telltale signs of AI manipulation. Both companies commented that because video models are getting better, those frame-by-frame detection methods are increasingly unreliable.

For this updated feature, International community uses its Globe ID Deep Face tech, which takes a three-pronged approach to verifying that a participant is a real person. It cross-references a signed image taken at the time of the user’s registration through World’s Orb device, a real-time face scan from the user’s device, and a live video frame visible to other meeting participants. It only verifies someone when all three things match, at which point a “Verified Human” badge appears on that participant’s title. (Yes, life is getting weird.) This also touches on aspects of user interface.

Zoom noted that hosts can enable a Deep Face waiting room to require all participants to verify their identity. Participants can also request mid-call that someone verify themselves on the spot.

“This integration is part of Zoom’s open ecosystem approach, giving customers more ways to build trust into their workflows based on what matters most for their employ case,” Zoom spokesperson Travis Isaman mentioned via email.

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Beyond Zoom, Altman’s Earth has been building partnerships with a range of consumer platforms, including Tinder and Visa, for human verification. Last month, it released tech to verify that real humans, rather than automated AI programs, are behind AI shopping agents at the point of purchase.

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