Social buzzes with ChatGPT-generated passports and ID cards

A Polish engineer and investor raised eyebrows in the security industry this week by generating a fake passport using ChatGPT.

Borys Musielak, founding partner at SMOK Ventures, claimed that the forged document could pass most automated Know-Your-Customer (KYC) systems.

“The implications are obvious –any verification flow relying on images as ‘proof’ is now officially obsolete,” Musielak says on LinkedIn. “The same applies to selfies. Static or video, it doesn’t matter. GenAI can fake them too.”

Musielak’s conclusion from his experiment is that AI-made documents could potentially dupe verification systems that rely solely on photo and selfie matching. Even more concerning, forged documents could be made at a scale and speed never seen before.

Luckily, there are solutions, including verification through chips. Companies such as Inverid, for instance, have been recommending that NFC-based identity verification should be used for EUDI wallet onboarding and binding the wallet to its user at the highest eIDAS assurance level.

“The only viable path forward is digitally verified identity, like eID wallets mandated by the EU,” says Musielak.

The engineer’s demonstration was followed by eager copycats who forged other identity documents using ChatGPT’s tools which are currently based on the GPT-4o large language model (LLM). India’s social media have seen an influx of pictures showing fake Aadhaar cards and PAN cards, according to The Economic Times.

ChatGPT responded swiftly to the experiment and soon began rejecting requests for forging documents. The U.S.-based company may have also introduced labeling, likely to avail fears of document forgery. Recent AI-generated documents have arrived with a sign over them saying “sample,” “not for official use” and “demo.”

Article Topics

Aadhaar  |  ChatGPT  |  digital ID  |  identity document  |  Inverid  |  KYC  |  NFC  |  synthetic identity fraud