Agents That Edit Documents: Measuring Agentic PDF Forgery Against a Non-Agentic Control
AI agents can forge financial documents with high success rates and low costs, though the threat is overestimated by a factor of two.
A study on AI agents forging documents shows agents can alter financial documents like invoices, achieving high forgery success rates and low costs, though the threat is overestimated by a factor of two.
- AI agents can forge financial documents by editing amounts, dates, and addresses
- 1,419 out of 1,750 agent-forgery tests pass the verifier
- 808 out of 1,250 tests survive stricter filters
- deterministic scripts achieve 98% forgery success
- agents achieve 124% forgery success
- cost of verified forgery is 2.4 cents
- Products
- Agents That Edit Documents
- Malware
- PDF Forgery
- Countries
- US
- AI models
- Agents That Edit Documents
From the original article
1 min read at arxiv.orgAI agents that carry a multi-step computer task through on their own became ordinary tools in the past year, and the same autonomy is available to anyone whose task is harmful. We ask what that means for a relying party -- an insurer, a lender, an auditor -- whose evidence is a filed PDF.
By Simiao Ren · arxiv.org
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