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The Volokh Conspiracy · October 14, 2026 · On the brief until October 28, 2026

Claiming Video Was "Deepfake" Not Enough to Require Excluding It, Even Absent Evidence of Who Recorded It

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Serving as an unproven defense claim of evidence fabrication

The Iowa Supreme Court ruled that a video of sexual abuse was properly admitted through circumstantial evidence without chain-of-custody proof. The court rejected the defendant's argument that the recording was an artificial intelligence deepfake. Criminal law practitioners must now offer concrete evidence of tampering rather than general claims about technology.

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Students can evaluate whether recognizing personal physical details is enough to prove a video is authentic when deepfakes exist.

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