Lorenz Meinen
Research Associate and Doctoral Candidate in Law, University of Bayreuth
Lorenz Meinen is a Research Associate in the bidt consortium project “For the Greater Good? Deepfakes in Law Enforcement (FoGG)” and is also supported by the bidt Graduate Center for doctoral researchers.
Brief description of my doctoral project
My PhD thesis examines the impact of deepfakes on the law of evidence in criminal and civil proceedings. The determination of specific facts lies at the heart of both types of proceedings, which requires the use of evidence. Photos, videos, and audio recordings are considered particularly probative in this context. However, with advances in generative artificial intelligence, their evidentiary value is increasingly being called into question. In the United States, the so-called “deepfake defense” has already emerged, whereby a party argues that a particular piece of evidence is deceptively forged. My dissertation explores whether and how media-based evidence may be used for judicial fact-finding in the future.
For the Greater Good? Deepfakes in Criminal Prosecution (FoGG)
The project brings together expertise from criminal law, law enforcement, business informatics and philosophy to examine the question of under what circumstances and to what extent the use of AI and deepfakes in law enforcement…
Publications
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Deepfakes im Straf- und Strafverfahrensrecht
Journal articleProject: FoGG -
Deepfakes in Criminal Investigations: Interdisciplinary Research Directions for CMC Research
Conference paperProject: FoGG -
Mehr Sicherheit durch Strafverfolgung?
Der Koalitionsvertrag im Lichte des IT-Strafrechts
Journal articleProject: FoGG