The legal field is not ready for AI.

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The average person cannot differentiate between real and AI-generated content. I teach a CLE, Truth or Tech, and I have the audience guess about which images and audio are real or AI. With well over 1,000 people having participated at this point, only about 20 have correctly identified the AI-generated content.

The standard authentication rule for court is that a party must produce sufficient information such that a reasonable jury could find the item is what you claim it is. For example, you show a picture to a witness and you ask them, "Does this fairly and accurately depict the scene as you saw it that day?" If thy witness says yes, that is typically enough information, and the picture is admitted as evidence.

This doesn't work in the age of AI. Everyone can now easily manipulate or generate pictures, video, or audio, and we are terrible at identifying the fake ones.

And the tools are only going to get better. Today is the worst that AI will ever be. There are many AI-related challenges hurtling toward the legal field, and we are not prepared. The legal field, historically, has moved far too slowly to keep pace with developments as rapid as those in AI..

Realistic video made using Google Veo3.