Expert Witness Asked ChatGPT To Show 0% Fault—The Wrong Way For Experts To Use AIAn expert witness asked ChatGPT to show the company was "0% at fault" in a deadly Houston explosion case. The prompts came out at trial and show experts how not to use AI. Aug 26 26August 26, 2026Article at Forbes
Will Smith eating spaghetti should be a wakeup call for anyone who cares about reality.Will Smith eating spaghetti has become the benchmark for AI generated videos. Yeah, it's funny, but if work in claims, litigation - if your work could touch the courtroom - the rapid progression should be a wakeup call. Aug 21 26August 21, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Brett Shavers And Magnet Forensics Ask Where Digital Investigations Break Down—AI Makes The Answers UrgentWhen people far from casework decide how digital forensics gets done, the errors land on defendants and victims. A veteran digital forensics examiner is pushing back. Aug 13 26August 13, 2026Article at Forbes
Google And Meta Shipped AI Tools That Fake Evidence—Then Pulled Them Days LaterFor one day in late July, anyone could type a sentence into Google Earth and get a fake satellite image rendered on top of Google's real imagery of a real place. Researchers made a nuclear plant in Iran and a bomb crater at a Gaza hospital within… Aug 11 26August 11, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Google And Meta Shipped AI Tools That Fake Evidence—Then Pulled Them Days LaterGoogle pulled AI image generation from Google Earth one day after launch because of fraud concerns. A digital forensics expert on what happens next. Aug 11 26August 11, 2026Article at Forbes
Fake Text Messages At Work: Why Misconduct Cases Now Need Digital Forensics Because of DeepfakesFake text messages are showing up in workplace investigations, and real messages could be denied as deepfakes. In this video: why the receipts that used to settle misconduct cases stopped settling anything, and what proof looks like now.Employment… Jul 29 26July 29, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Fake Text Messages In Workplace Investigations—Why Misconduct Cases Now Need Digital ForensicsCan a screenshot still prove workplace harassment? A digital forensics expert on why cases that never needed forensics now depend on the device behind the message. Jul 28 26July 28, 2026Article at Forbes
5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is RealDigital evidence authentication faces a growing crisis as metadata, once a key indicator, proves increasingly unreliable. While metadata provides information like creation date and location, it's easily altered on phones or with free tools. Innocent… Jul 17 26July 17, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
5 Reasons Metadata Can’t Prove Your Photo—Or Any File—Is RealMetadata was never proof. It is an envelope written in pencil, and every new app and upload pipeline hands someone else an eraser. Jul 15 26July 15, 2026Article at Forbes
Officer, it wasn't me - my AI did it!"It wasn't me. My AI did it." That defense is coming, and the way AI agents work right now, it might hold up. Ovie Carroll, SANS instructor and career federal cybercrime investigator, ran the test that shows why: an AI agent edited a Word document… Jul 09 26July 09, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
‘My AI Did It’ Is The Next Courtroom Excuse—And It Might Actually Work'It wasn't me. The agent did it.' AI agents can use a computer like a ghost or just like you. A digital forensics expert on proving whether you or the AI touched the file. Jul 06 26July 06, 2026Article at Forbes
AI has ruined trust. If you aren't worried about fraud, you should be.GenAI has ruined trust because anyone can make fraudulent media (like photos, videos, audio) with little to no technical skill or cost. Jun 16 26June 16, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
AI Is Writing Police Evidence—And The Original Is VanishingA police officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidence. The deeper problem is that no one kept the original recording to catch it. Here is the fix. Jun 15 26June 15, 2026Article at Forbes
Deepfakes Make Video Calls Dangerous—On-Device Detection Is The AnswerWhy catching deepfake video calls belongs on your device—not in the cloud. Jun 02 26June 02, 2026Article at Forbes
A Confidential Informant's Deepfake Indicted An Innocent PersonHow did a deepfake indict an innocent person in federal court without anyone catching it? The first federal survey of judges on deepfake challenges just dropped. May 14 26May 14, 2026Article at Forbes
ChatGPT Can Fake A Receipt But Can’t Spot Its Own WorkNew research shows ChatGPT can forge receipt numbers so convincingly that humans, forensic tools, and even ChatGPT itself cannot tell the fakes from originals. May 05 26May 05, 2026Article at Forbes
Digital Forensics Is the Only Sure Answer to Deepfakes. It's Also the Liar's Dividend's Second PayoutDigital forensics is the only reliable answer to deepfakes—it's also being weaponized to drive litigation costs. Apr 30 26April 30, 2026Article at Forbes
200 Judges Have Signed Up To Learn AI—The Other 31,500 Should TooThe Judicial AI Consortium is free, judges-only, and run by three sitting judges. About 200 have joined. The evidence landing in courtrooms says that is not enough. Apr 24 26April 24, 2026Article at Forbes
Real-time secret courtroom coaching is here, but depositions are the real risk.Read my full article at Forbes about how deepfakes and covert coaching are changing how depositions have to be run in the United… Apr 20 26April 20, 2026Video at Lars Daniel | Digital Forensics and Evidence
Hassan Letters Target AI Voice Cloning Scams After $893M FBI Loss ReportSenator Maggie Hassan sent letters April 16 to ElevenLabs, LOVO, Speechify and VEED demanding answers on how they stop voice-clone scams as FBI reports $893M in losses. Apr 19 26April 19, 2026Article at Forbes
