1 in 25 Kids Are Now Deepfake Victims — and Your Investigators Aren't Ready

The increasing prevalence of deepfake image abuse, affecting 1 in 25 children, has fundamentally altered computer vision and biometric workflows, rendering digital images unreliable as a "source of truth." This crisis demands a shift in investigative technology from broad facial recognition to high-precision facial comparison, highlighting a critical need for affordable forensic analysis tools.