Deepfakes and the Law: Challenges, Responses, and Critique

This collection offers the first sustained, multidisciplinary legal analysis of deepfakes and their far-reaching consequences. Deepfake technology has moved with disorienting speed from fringe curiosity to a global social, political and legal problem.Once the preserve of Hollywood studios, the ability to fabricate hyper-realistic images, audio and video is now available to anyone with a smartphone.Its most prevalent and devastating use remains the creation of non-consensual sexually explicit content targeting women.Yet deepfakes also fuel political disinformation, destabilise democratic processes, enable fraud and identity theft, and contribute to a broader post-truth climate in which the authenticity of all digital evidence becomes contestable.In this landscape, one of the most urgent tasks is simply to begin the right conversations about how law and society should respond.Across three sections, an international array of scholars examine how synthetic media challenges foundational ass