Sep 11, 2026 · 31 min · 11 segments
In this episode of DevNTell we are joined by Dr. Manny Ahmed (Co-Founder & CEO) and Ari Abelson (Co-Founder & CSO) of OpenOrigins. OpenOrigins is building the real-time, permanent trust layer for…
But for the audience who might not realize what's kind of going on or might just be getting into AI themselves, I guess, could either of you or both of you kind of touch on the current state of generative AI and how what its impact has been on, I mean, at least social media and why it's so important for people to be able to distinguish that type of content from human generated content.
I think that what we're witnessing now is pretty remarkable, which is, in itself, like Flywheel, right? It's AI models that are becoming increasingly better at a pace that we, I think, almost can't catch up to anymore, right? So like Astra and Fable are really good examples of this.
What it means is, you know, initially when Open Origin started, the problems we were really concerned about were synthetic content, like photos and videos, deepfakes, etc.
Like this was where we were like sitting and saying, okay, this is going to be the genesis problem of the world.
How do you tell if an image is real? How do you know if a person's face is real?
But over the last, I would say, year, especially the last year, the risks are expansive.
And the landscape has changed fundamentally, right? Cybersecurity risks are now the predominant fear.
Systems that we thought were deeply stable and deeply secure are able to be corrupted within a matter of days.
Because what it means is we've shifted from, oh, can this AI model kind of fake a photo, fake a image, and trick somebody in a shallow way.
The fundamental infrastructure is that we built our entire digital ecosystem on, actually going to be able to sustain, not just the next year, but the next few months for the next model release.
But for the audience who might not realize what's kind of going on or might just be getting into AI themselves, I guess, could either of you or both of you kind of touch on the current state of generative AI and how what its impact has been on, I mean, at least social media and why it's so important for people to be able to distinguish that type of content from human generated content.
I think that what we're witnessing now is pretty remarkable, which is, in itself, like Flywheel, right? It's AI models that are becoming increasingly better at a pace that we, I think, almost can't catch up to anymore, right? So like Astra and Fable are really good examples of this.
What it means is, you know, initially when Open Origin started, the problems we were really concerned about were synthetic content, like photos and videos, deepfakes, etc.
Like this was where we were like sitting and saying, okay, this is going to be the genesis problem of the world.
How do you tell if an image is real? How do you know if a person's face is real?
But over the last, I would say, year, especially the last year, the risks are expansive.
And the landscape has changed fundamentally, right? Cybersecurity risks are now the predominant fear.
Systems that we thought were deeply stable and deeply secure are able to be corrupted within a matter of days.
Because what it means is we've shifted from, oh, can this AI model kind of fake a photo, fake a image, and trick somebody in a shallow way.
The fundamental infrastructure is that we built our entire digital ecosystem on, actually going to be able to sustain, not just the next year, but the next few months for the next model release.
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