OpenAI tells a federal judicial panel there may be no reliable scientific way to detect AI generated images and video in the future

Context

This is secondhand: Polymarket's post gives no source, and its quote is a paraphrase. A report carried by Investing.com says OpenAI policy counsel Shira Anderson made the remarks to a federal judicial panel, along with Meta.

Deep dive

On October 15, Polymarket posted: JUST IN: OpenAI warns U.S. judiciary that there may be no scientific way to reliably detect AI generated images and videos in the future.

A report from Investing.com says representatives of OpenAI and Meta told a federal judicial panel on Thursday that deepfakes have become so advanced that verifying audio and video evidence in court will get harder. It says Shira Anderson, policy counsel at OpenAI, told the committee that AI images keep improving and that she does not believe a scientific method will exist in the future to detect them.

According to the report, Anderson said each company uses its own system, so there is no universal method to reliably detect all watermarks or verify visual content, and that while these systems will improve they will never be completely reliable. US District Judge Jesse Furman of Manhattan, who chairs the panel, noted that although academics predict courts will face deepfakes, the issue has not yet come up often in actual cases.

The primary record of the hearing was not found, so details rely on that report.

What to expect next

Watch whether the federal judiciary's rules committees propose changes to how AI generated or altered evidence must be authenticated.

Also watch whether AI companies agree on shared watermark or provenance standards, which Anderson's comments suggest are currently fragmented, and whether courts start seeing more disputes over deepfake evidence. A transcript or summary of the hearing from the judiciary would show exactly what was said and how the panel responded.