That ability to determine based on looking at it is gone.
And thats a big change
Befuddle and confuse
Jurors find audio-visual evidence convincing and hard to forget.
They also want to protect juries from the opposite problem: litigants who claim that legitimate evidence is fake.
Some legal experts think judges, rather than juries, should be in charge of deciding whether evidence is real or fake© Bettmann/Getty Images
Several defendants have already attempted that argument in high-profile cases.
During the trial, the judge would then instruct the jury to consider the evidence authentic.
The results werent encouraging: the tools labeled between 71 and 99 percent of fake videos as real.
Prosecutors eventually dropped the harassment charges against Spone related to making deepfakes.
Not everyone will be so lucky.
I have a tape of him threatening us.'
What on earth is that judge supposed to do under those circumstances?
What tools do they have?
They dont have the tools right now.
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