During her time at CASBS, Sandra Ristovska will be working on her new book, Deep-Faking Images, which offers a historical perspective on current public and legal concerns about AI and deepfakes’ effect on the integrity and reliability of video evidence. Based on an analysis of legal rulings and news coverage of U.S. cases, the book situates the rise of generative AI and deepfakes within a longer legal and social history of technological manipulation of evidentiary images since the invention of photography in the 19th century. It argues that technological manipulation of images-as-evidence may be exacerbating existing social inequality and racial inequities in the U.S. legal system.
