“They’re going to make her declare war,” Leo said, panic edging his voice. The phantom on screen was pivoting toward a resolution on autonomous drone strikes.
The DeepEye system, Arsen’s flagship AI, had flashed a 97.4% spoof probability over the senator’s face. Not on the screen—on the fiber-optic line feeding directly from the C-SPAN backup stream. Someone had hijacked the root video pipeline.
The crisis was averted. But as Mira leaned back, her hands trembling from the adrenaline, she saw the DeepEye dashboard tick up: Deepfake attempts neutralized today: 1,247. arsen cybersecurity deepfake protection
The phantom froze. Then, in a voice that warped between Roark’s and a synthetic monotone, it said: “This transmission is non-biological. Origin: unknown. Please stand by.”
Then Mira’s console screamed.
Gasps. Aides scrambled. The real Senator Roark’s office called in, live and confused.
“That’s not the senator,” Mira whispered to her partner, Leo. “That’s a phantom.” “They’re going to make her declare war,” Leo
On the Senate floor, the phantom began to glitch. Its lip movements lagged. A faint, shimmering grid—the Arsen HexMark—appeared over its left eye. The Chair squinted. “Senator, are you experiencing technical difficulties?”