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Adding another area of a court proceeding that relies on "experts" is already a problem. Even when the deep fakes become good enough that they can't reliably detect them, they will continue to claim they can.

And if they wrongly testify that a genuine video is fake, it's much harder to claim that they submitted false evidence.

> Not really. Experts can still detect if something is a deep fake

Currently. Currently, experts only can determine if something is a deep fake.

Considering that we're still in the infancy of deepfakes, this is not a reliable defence against deepfakes being used as evidence.

Yeah, if there's one thing the worldwide politics of the last several years has shown us, it is that punishment is swift and severe when governments knowingly lie to their citizens.

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Well they didn't need high tech means to do that, did they?

Lying to citizens and willfully falsifying evidence in a court of law are different things that are treated very differently.

> Experts can still detect if something is a deep fake

For how long?

Hard to predict the future. I predict a very long time (going from 99.9% perfect to 100% is really hard). Regardless though, today is not that day.