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by tsimionescu
1132 days ago
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In criminal court at least, evidence is only admitted based on a chain of custody. You're not supposed to enter random videos off YouTube into evidence - you can only enter a piece of video into evidence based on witness testimony about how the video was taken. As such, the question of deep-fakes should be relatively irrelevant to (criminal) courts. If a witness claims that a particular video was filmed on a particular day in a particular way, that is as much evidence as you need. Whether that witness is lying remains to be proven during the course of the trial. Things may be different in civil court, where the standards for evidence are more lax I believe. |
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Prosecution has a freer reign during deposition and can play a video from Youtube[1] and ask the subject of the video if they were at the location at a specific date and time, and if the words are their own.
1. With the courts permission.