Criminal court provides significant discussion of screening electronic evidence for AI fakery

In R. v. Medow, Justice Brock Jones of the Ontario Court of Justice presided over the trial of a man accused of various offences, including impersonating a police officer, obstructing a police officer during the course of his duties and assaulting a police officer causing bodily harm. The charges arose out of an encounter between the accused and a police officer who was conducting a traffic stop of a motorist, and the entire encounter was recorded on both the officer’s bodycam and the in-car camera in his squad car. At trial the accused questioned the authenticity of the camera footage, suggesting it had been digitally altered or was even a “deepfake,” all related to what he alleged was a police conspiracy to frame him.

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