If the video evidence is forged, the person submitting it gets both prosecuted and sued, and that will happen pretty early on. That is likely to limit how often this actually happens. And neither cops nor the DA generally want to waste their time with bogus evidence either.
I'm not saying this to minimize the harm to the accused when it does happen. It obviously has to be illegal to do that, and I'd fully support additional laws to increase punishments for anyone who forgets video or audio to falsely implicate someone else.
What else do you suggest should be done?
“And neither cops nor the DA generally want to waste their time with bogus evidence either.”
And again... That is not true. It is all at the officer’s/investigators discretion. They make very little effort anymore to make sure evidence is “solid” or not. “Close enough, pick him up and let the court figure it out”. I have personally been falsely arrested three times “on suspicion” without evidence. One crime I was supposed to have committed when I was nowhere even close to the town where it was committed. Yet on all three I was arrested on simple “suspicion, and/or fits the description”. Judge kicked all three out when I was arraigned. But that did not prevent the arrest or the days I already spent in jail waiting arraignment.
“What else do you suggest should be done?”
Ihe use of AI should be strongly condemned in mass. Some uses need to be completely outlawed with very stiff penalties and charges against the creators of AI.