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Elon Musk's statements could be 'deepfakes', Tesla defence lawyers tell court

The Guardian

A California judge has tentatively ordered Elon Musk to be interviewed under oath about whether he made certain statements regarding the capabilities of Tesla's Autopilot features after the company questioned the authenticity of the remarks, claiming Musk is a "target for deep fakes". The ruling came in a lawsuit against Tesla, filed by the family of Walter Huang who was killed in a car crash in 2018. Huang's family argues Tesla's partially automated driving software failed. The carmaker contends Huang was playing a video game on his phone before the crash and disregarded vehicle warnings. The attorneys for Huang's family sought to depose Musk regarding recorded statements from 2016 in which he allegedly said: "A Model S and Model X, at this point, can drive autonomously with greater safety than a person.