Corporate expense fraud used to be a petty problem that faced significant practical limits. An employee could inflate a mileage claim, reuse an old dinner receipt, or purchase a fabricated receipt from one of the many “lost receipt” websites that have operated online for years. Still, the act required some effort. The evidence also often looked suspicious, and the expected payoff was usually small enough that people did not bother.
Generative AI changes that calculation. A worker can now generate a convincing receipt in seconds simply by typing a few words into an AI image generator. The result can resemble a restaurant receipt, a monthly phone bill, or even a document that appears to have been signed and scanned. The cost of deception has fallen toward zero, and when the cost of an activity collapses, economists expect more of it.
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