OpenAI, Meta caution US judiciary about risk of 'deepfake' evidence

By Nate Raymond Oct 15 (Reuters) — Tech experts at OpenAI and Meta Platforms warned a federal judicial panel on Thursday that AI-generated "deepfakes" are becoming so sophisticated that it will become increasingly challenging to determine the authenticity of audio and video evidence presented at trial. The companies' representatives and other experts shared their views on the evolving technology during a meeting in Boston of the US Judicial Conference's Advisory Committee on Evidence Rules, which for three years has grappled with how to police the risks of fabricated AI-generated evidence in court. In that period alone, rapid advancements in generative AI have reached the point where fabricated videos have become difficult for both humans and software to spot, experts advised at the meeting. "AI images are only getting better, and I do not think that there will be a scientific way going forward to detect them," OpenAI policy counsel Shira Anderson told the committee. The panel has struggled since 2023 with how to address authentication issues related to deepfakes and ensure that evidence known to be generated by AI meets the same reliability standards as evidence from a human exper