Tesla's Deepfake Defense for Musk's Autopilot Promises Rejected by Judge
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A judge in California is preparing to order Tesla CEO Elon Musk to deliver a deposition under oath in a trial over a fatal Autopilot crash that killed an Apple engineer in 2018. Musk's lawyers have claimed that the plaintiffs' case is built on evidence they suggest to be "deepfakes," an insinuation that the judge presiding over the case has described as "deeply troubling." The trial is scheduled to begin July 31.
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