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Senate Bill 655 would pilot AI evidence clinics to help courts authenticate digital evidence
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Senate Bill 655 would establish a pilot AI evidence clinic within the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide court-appointed expert analysis of whether images, audio or video have been manipulated by generative artificial intelligence.
Senate Bill 655 would create and fund an AI evidence clinic pilot program within the Administrative Office of the Courts to give judges access to scientific expertise about whether images, audio and video have been altered by artificial intelligence.
Sen. Clarence Hester, the bill's sponsor, told the Judicial Proceedings Committee the initiative is modeled on law clinics and would allow Maryland colleges and universities with AI expertise to "assist in civil cases by providing expert opinions concerning the likeness of an image, audio or video and whether it is original or has been manipulated through the use of AI." Hester said the bill…
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