Extract from Cassandre Coyer’s article “It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane—It’s a Deepfake: 5 Concerns for Legal in 2024”
Advances in artificial intelligence brought many new capabilities to consumers—the ability to chat with a human-like chatbot; listen to AI-generated songs from what sounds like their favorite artists; or even get to see Pope Francis in a fashionable, white Balenciaga puffer jacket.
But the ability to create more realistic and cheaper deepfakes—essentially deceptive media content that has been digitally altered to appear real—also brings several new considerations for the legal industry.
From challenged court proceedings to higher e-discovery costs and looming waves of litigation and enforcement actions, Legaltech News highlighted some of the key concerns that deepfakes pose to legal professionals going into 2024 and beyond.
