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SUMMARY:From Artifacts to Agents: Socializing the Epistemology of Evidence
  in Law - Alejandro D. Tamez
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DESCRIPTION:Courtrooms are paradigmatic formal epistemic environments: the
 y are structured by evidentiary rules\, institutional roles\, and procedur
 al norms designed to protect the integrity of fact-finding. Yet courts are
  also social institutions and thus vulnerable to the same malicious episte
 mic interventions that destabilize less formal social epistemic environmen
 ts. As generative media systems proliferate\, courts will increasingly con
 front not only fabricated audiovisual artifacts (“deepfakes”)\, but al
 so the broader erosion of epistemic trust in digital media that has long f
 unctioned as a gold-standard evidentiary artifact. The problem is therefor
 e not merely misinformation\, but the loosening of epistemic norms as trus
 t breaks down (Rini\, 2020).\n\nLegal scholarship has responded by emphasi
 zing (i) provenance and forensic practices within existing doctrine\, (ii)
  expanded judicial gatekeeping over authenticity\, and (iii) stronger sanc
 tions and professional-responsibility constraints on opportunistic “deep
 fake defenses” (Pfefferkorn\, 2020\; Delfino\, 2023\, 2024\; Dalal et al
 .\, 2024). This Article argues that these proposals must be integrated wit
 hin a social-epistemic approach to adjudication. In addition to provenance
 -based indicators (chain of custody\, metadata integrity\, capture and tra
 nsfer history)\, judges should adopt structured\, procedurally constrained
  assessments of agent-centered reliability: the credibility and incentives
  of sponsoring parties and counsel\, their diligence in preserving provena
 nce\, consistency with the broader record\, and litigation conduct. A two-
 track protocol—artifact-centered and agent-centered—aims to reduce bot
 h false admissions of fakes and strategic discounting of authentic evidenc
 e while preserving adjudicative legitimacy under deepfake uncertainty.
LOCATION:Apollo Auditorium
URL:https://pretalx.iacapconf.org/iacap-2026/talk/ARTTDT/
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