In an era of deepfakes, can digital evidence still be trusted?
AI-generated content and increasingly fragmented communications are changing how organizations assess digital evidence. For investigators, establishing authenticity is becoming as important as analysing the evidence itself.
For years, digital evidence carried an assumption of authenticity. A document was presumed genuine unless there was reason to believe otherwise.
A screenshot reflected a conversation. A photograph captured a moment in time.
But that assumption is becoming harder to sustain.
Associate Director, Digital Forensics, at S-RM.
Advances in artificial intelligence and editing tools have transformed how digital content is created and shared. At the same time, investigations increasingly rely on evidence gathered from messaging platforms, cloud services and personal devices.
Together, these developments have made questions of authenticity far more prominent.
Before evidence can be relied upon, investigators need to understand where it came from, how it was obtained and whether it accurately reflects the underlying source material.
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