Federal judges meeting in Boston heard tech industry warnings that AI-generated images and video are becoming nearly impossible to verify, as a judiciary committee considers whether courts need new rules for evidence that may be deepfakes instead of the real thing.
\n\nReuters reports that the U.S. Judicial Conference’s Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules has spent three years, since 2023, studying how courts should handle evidence that may have been faked or altered using artificial intelligence. At Thursday’s meeting, representatives from OpenAI and Meta told the panel that detecting such fakes is only going to get harder.
\n\n“AI images are only getting better, and I do not think that there will be a scientific way going forward to detect them,” said Shira Anderson, OpenAI’s policy counsel.
\n\nDevin Norder, Meta’s director of product management, told the committee that the latest generation of AI models produces media that people simply cannot tell apart from the real thing. “Media generated from frontier models, at least in the last few generations, are indistinguishable by humans from authentic or AI-generated media,” Norder said. He added that producing convincing fakes no longer takes much effort or money: “And the cost and the time it takes to create…
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