AI-generated content reaching courts: digital forensics authenticity under pressure

An article in Police Professional by SYTECH managing director Daren Greener examines how AI-generated deepfakes are undermining established forensic validation techniques. Traditional artefacts such as compression signatures and EXIF data can now be replicated or removed, while adversarial tools are designed to evade forensic detection. Courts are increasingly requiring experts to explain how authenticity was established, creating what the article describes as reasonable doubt inflation.

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