A man spent more than five years in prison for a double murder he didn't commit. Not because the evidence was planted. Not because witnesses lied. Because a trial judge looked at pixelated surveillance footage, compared it to photos of the defendant, and decided the blurry figure on

In the hours after a fatal shooting involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Minneapolis, a familiar and dangerous pattern reappeared online: AI-generated images claiming to “reveal” information that no camera ever recorded. Social media users circulated synthetic portraits said to show the unmasked face of the shooter, presenting them as

A California judge dismissed a housing dispute case in September after discovering that plaintiffs had submitted what appeared to be an AI-generated deepfake of a real witness. The case may be among the first documented instances of fabricated synthetic media being passed off as authentic evidence in an American courtroom