98%
of insurers say AI editing tools are fueling digital media fraud
Verisk State of Insurance Fraud Study, 2026ARP
Audit Reality Portal is a forensic evidence stack for insurance carriers: digital provenance, artificial-artifact forensics, and user-data consistency—with documented human review—so fake files are caught at intake before they corrupt downstream AI.
Industry signal · 2026
98%
of insurers say AI editing tools are fueling digital media fraud
Verisk State of Insurance Fraud Study, 202689%
of homeowners third-party liability fraud-detection models are vendor-sourced
NAIC AI/ML surveys, 2021–2025 · JIR$1T
in revenue tied to unmonitored AI by 2028—outpacing model accountability and driving drift
Gartner forecast · unmonitored AI, 202866%
believe digital media fraud goes undetected often or very often
Verisk · 300 claims professionals surveyedAdditional context: Coalition Against Insurance Fraud estimates U.S. insurance fraud losses exceed $308 billion annually; FBI/NICB estimates put fraudulent P&C claims near 10% of volume (~$45B). Undetected fakes do not only pay out—they enter loss experience and training data, so automation extrapolates the error. ARP measures stack intake and audits model drift so both the claim and the model can be sanitized.
What carriers are seeing
Media enters as First Notice of Loss. Automation accelerates intake. If detection fails, a fictitious claim can be paid—and the same file can unduly extrapolate the next model. ARP scores provenance, compression artifacts, and cross-claim consistency so SIU gets a defensible packet, and contaminated data can be sandboxed out of the internal AI stack.
AI-generated or inflated vehicle and property damage submitted at FNOL.
Repair estimates, receipts, and reports authored by language models.
Caller verification and recorded statements spoofed with cloned audio.
EXIF stripping, geotag conflicts, re-encoded “originals,” and search-recycled stills.
Live briefing · recent coverage
NICB coverage of Verisk research: 36% of consumers would consider digitally altering claim images or documents; 98% of insurers link AI tools to rising digital fraud.
Read NICB releaseAcross NAIC AI/ML surveys, homeowners insurers rely on vendor models more than auto writers for third-party liability fraud detection (89% vs. 60%)—third-party liability for the carrier’s own stack.
Open NAIC AI topicRevenue tied to unmonitored AI is projected to rise from about $150 billion to $1 trillion by 2028. That boom outpaces model-accountability programs—and shows up as behavioural drift in claims and underwriting automation.
Read Gartner coverageTwelve participating states are piloting the tool through September 2026 so regulators can see how insurers use AI and where governance, training, or model risk may fail.
Read NAIC pilot summaryAdmiral reported a 71% fraud increase in 2025, citing AI-manipulated plates, invented valuables, and exaggerated damage—examples flagged by fraud teams.
Read BBC NewsBuilt for insurance compliance desks
Every pilot is designed around insurer accountability—not vendor absolution. Detection occurs before the claims decision stack. Adverse action requires documented human review. Flagged files are exfiltrated from the internal AI stack and sandboxed so fraudulent interpolation cannot drift production models.
Advisory governance
Twenty-five U.S. jurisdictions have adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin; a 12-state AI Risk Evaluation Supplement pilot runs March–September 2026. ARP constitutes independent advisory review so carriers can show examiners how intake, vendor models, and drift are governed—without replacing the carrier’s own legal, compliance, or procurement sign-off.
Regulatory governance, vendor diligence, consumer impact, and examination readiness.
Fraud workflows, adjuster escalation, evidence handling, and practical false-positive review.
Model integrity, data controls, evidence stack, and sanitization after contaminated intake.
This is a compliance-incorporated advisory layer, not ARP’s statutory board of directors. It supplements—but does not replace—the carrier’s legal, compliance, security, and procurement review.
NAIC implementation map · April 1, 2026
Click a legend item to isolate a category. Source: NAIC map for Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers.
Initial pilot · accountable delivery
Carrier teams work directly with ARP R&D. Intake is measured, loss is studied, and contaminated data is sandboxed—so automation stays verified rather than extrapolated from fraudulent files.
Where claim media enters FNOL. NAIC-bulletin compliant, AI-system tailored, state regulated.
Matrix score of provenance, artificial-data forensics, and C2PA + ARP Protocol.
Cryptographic chain-of-custody, escalated risk tiers, and a defensible fraud packet.
Adjuster and SIU review; AI system recalled; training and automation data sanitized.
“Carriers cannot wait for tools to catch up to artificially generated evidence. Nor can they rely on scattered solutions that compromise data integrity for the NAIC. ARP exists to give compliance, SIU, and claims leaders an opportunity to improve fraud mitigation and data analytics for future models in the AI economy.”
Pilot interest intake
Submissions land in ARP’s secure intake database. ARP leadership reviews them—and our R&D leader will reach out to schedule a discovery call. Diligence packet available upon request.