Redefining Reality: What Lawyers Need to Know About Deepfakes (10/18/22)

Deepfakes are defined as synthetic media in which a person in an existing image, video, or audio recording is replaced with someone else’s likeness. The quality of deepfakes is on the rise, making it increasingly difficult to tell the difference between what’s real and what has been doctored. In a landscape where notions of truth and reality have become increasingly politically polarized and weaponized, deepfakes have urgent implications both culturally and legally. After all, if you can’t trust what you see or hear, what can you trust?

In this seminar, we’ll breakdown the technology behind creating and detecting deepfakes so that even technologically disinclined lawyers will be armed with the basic knowledge they need to keep abreast of these developments. We’ll explore how this technology is already impacting legal proceedings and how it might impact society at large. We’ll also take a look at how states, countries, and social media companies are attempting to regulate deepfakes within their borders and platforms.

Anne Haag is a Practice Management Advisor at the Chicago Bar Association. Anne worked as a patent paralegal at a Chicago IP firm before arriving at the CBA in 2017 as the Law Practice Management and Technology department’s trainer/coordinator. She is also a certified crisis counselor and volunteers as a patient advocate in the ER.

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