Tesla's Deepfake Defense for Elon Musk's Statements on Self-Driving Safety

A judge overseeing a wrongful death lawsuit involving Tesla's Autopilot system rejected Tesla's claim that videos of CEO Elon Musk's public statements might be deepfakes. The judge ordered Musk to be interviewed for a deposition at which plaintiffs can ask whether he made the statements. The wrongful death and negligence lawsuit was filed in 2019 by the wife and children of Walter Huang, a 38-year-old Apple engineer who was killed in March 2018 while his Tesla Model X was in Autopilot mode.