Fake by Default: How to Prove What’s Real in the Age of AI?
Session language: English.
If any image, voice or document can be generated in seconds, how do we still prove what’s real?
For decades, a photograph, an audio recording or an email was treated as evidence. Today, any content can be generated or manipulated in seconds, and the burden of proof has shifted: digital content is now considered fake until proven otherwise.
This creates a dual challenge. On one side, fraud using deepfakes and synthetic documents that look authentic. On the other, the “liar’s dividend”, where genuine evidence is dismissed as “AI-generated”.
Gilberto Torres — Chief Data Officer https://www.linkedin.com/in/gilberto-torres/Halan Borges — Co-Founder DolutechAIhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/halanborges/Paulo Pinto — CEO XKONSULTINGhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/pauloppinto/Brian Long — CEO Summit Cognitivehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bcl23/Art Linkov — CEO stealth startuphttps://www.linkedin.com/in/art-linkov/
Together, we’ll discuss:
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How to ensure authenticity, integrity and chain of custody of digital content
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What courts, companies and investigators can still trust as evidence
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How deepfake fraud and the “liar’s dividend” are changing risk and compliance
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The opportunities this opens for startups focused on trust, forensics and verification
This is not a conversation about fear of AI. It’s about building the tools, processes and standards that let us trust again in a world where seeing is no longer believing.
📅 11 November 2026🕚 11:30–12:30📍 Portugal Tech Week Palace — Palacete Gomes Freire, Lisbon
Organised by Cybertech Acceleration with 351 Portuguese Startup Association.
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