Summary: Tesla lawyers argue Elon Musk’s statements about Autopilot could be deepfakes

Lawyers for Tesla argued that statements made by Elon Musk about the company’s Autopilot software should not be trusted as they could be deepfakes. The argument was made as part of Tesla’s defense in a lawsuit blaming the company for the death of Walter Huang in a fatal crash in 2018. Huang died while driving a Tesla Model X, with attorneys for his family arguing Tesla’s driver assist software was at fault. The attorneys seek to interview Musk regarding statements he made about the safety of this software. However, the judge in the case rejected this argument, stating that Tesla’s position was “deeply troubling” and that public figures cannot simply say anything they like in the public domain and then hide behind the potential use of deepfakes.

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