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Deepfakes are in the news. Before the last election, the New Jersey Office of the Attorney General alerted voters about fake or manipulated photos, videos, or audio that appear real, but do not represent actual events. The OAG warned, "created using generative AI technologies, they are part of a broader threat of false information designed to mislead and confuse the public." And more recently, in his address to Congress, President Trump praised the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (TAKE IT DOWN) Act, an expansive bill criminalizing the publication of non-consensual intimate images, including "digital forgeries" as defined, that has already passed unanimously out of the Senate.
As practicing attorneys and co-chairs of the Construction Law Sub-committee of the Burlington County Bar Association Civil Practice Section, Jim Landgraf and I are very concerned with the threat this new technology poses to the administration of justice based on discovery processes and evidence derived from electronically stored information (ESI). In the interests of getting ahead of the problem, we are pleased to present a new continuing legal education program in two parts on "Deepfake Discovery and ESI Forensic Investigations," with ethics credits spanning hour-long lunch & learn Zoom sessions on Tuesday, April 8, 2025 at 12:30 PM for the Deepfake portion of the program, and Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 12:30 PM for ESI. Through our invited experts we plan to survey detection models and forensic investigation tools that can reveal erased or deleted ESI, ESI that has been altered or created to deceive, and generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) deepfake audio and visual media that may be produced for misuse as exhibits during discovery and trial preparation.
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Bob Incollingo is a dedicated South Jersey construction attorney who litigates construction, business, and real estate cases in Gloucester County, Burlington County, and Camden County, New Jersey from his office in Cherry Hill.
