India, Dec. 11 -- Generative AI has armed cybermcriminals with a tool that doesnot just steal content, but sanitises it. For businesses, this forces a new, expensive mandate; the "Authenticity Tax".

The digital economy is facing a crisis of provenance, the recorded history of ownership and origin. Where cybercrime once focused on stealing simple data and money, has now matured into an automated, high-volume threat to intellectual property (IP) and verifiable truth. And, here GenAI is being utilised to enable two transformative criminal acts:

The problem has moved beyond digital piracy, where a file is copied and an identical signature is retained. It is an act of digital money laundering, where the original copyright signature is scrubb...