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We are very rapidly getting to the point where an audio recording (and likely soon video) aren’t going to count as definitive evidence soon. It’s going to be i

• dragonwriter 3y ago
  > We are very rapidly getting to the point where an audio recording (and likely soon video) aren’t going to count as definitive evidence soon. That's always been the case. Recordings, like physical evidence, are supported by testimonial (and sometimes other, but beneath it all is testimonial) evidence of their provenance, and their probative value as evidence depends on the reception of the evidence supporting their provenance as well as their own content. That's true fairly formally of evidence in court, but its pragmatically true wherever they are presented even outside of court. Lookalikes, soundalikes, and recordings/photo/video of the actual person in question in different contexts than what something is presented as representing, as well as actually doctoring recordings/imagery, have been an issue as long as recordings and imagery have existed.