“Today’s sophisticated tools create the potential for deepfakes and for video footage to be subtly altered in ways that are challenging for the human eye to detect,” said Levit. “The time is now to safeguard the authenticity of video so that it can remain as a trusted source of evidence in court and as an accurate record of an event.”

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