Real or fake? Researchers to develop tool that would help courts spot AI evidence

TORONTO — As artificial intelligence makes it easier for anyone to doctor – or even fabricate – videos, photos and other types of evidence, a group of researchers in Canada is aiming to help the courts sort through what’s real or fake.

The team, which includes technologists and legal scholars based in universities in Ontario and British Columbia, is planning to spend the next two years creating an open-source, free and easy to use tool that courts, people navigating the justice system and others can use to help detect AI-generated content.

Courts are ill-prepared for the rise in AI content, and the current roster of commercial tools is opaque and largely unreliable, often producing false positives and showing bias against non-native English speakers, said Maura Grossman, one of the proje