First step by the Spanish government to ensure that they deepfakes be a crime. The government wants these AI-generated images that appear real to be included in the chapter of the Penal Code dedicated to crimes against honor, such as slander and libel.

It is very strange that Santos Cerdán, to defend himself and avoid his resignation, has not used the wildcard of the so-called deepfake, which is already common in courts and will unfortunately become more common. The reason may be that the interested party is unaware of this line of defense, or that the audio is not a deepfake and that the corruption under investigation is real, and that he opted for the most intelligent option in these cases: to resign from politics and defend himself like any other citizen. It's also possible that he didn't want to further damage his party politically, whether the conversation is true or false, which Santos Cerdán himself probably doesn't remember, because the alleged conversation dates back six years. Be that as it may, courts are often mistaken when they believe, as almost everyone does, that human memory is like an audio and video recording. In reality, it is very precarious and, under minimally acceptable conditions, lasts no more than 48 hours. After that time, witness psychology has scientifically confirmed that memory is reconstructed and filled with false memories to fill in its gaps, producing unreal memories that the subject firmly believes correspond to the truth. A disaster that makes interrogations in court proceedings, despite their sometimes spectacular theatricality, actually serve little more than to waste time or to appeal to the judge's social prejudices so that he decides the case not in favor of the truth, but in favor of the interests of a lawyer or prosecutor.