The recent Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act case against Fireflies.AI Corp has largely been framed as a biometric privacy dispute. That framing is legally correct but analytically incomplete. The more consequential issue is not voice recognition accuracy or transcription quality. It is evidence failure in systems that now routinely record, summarize, and store human speech.

AI meeting assistants have crossed a quiet threshold. Their outputs are no longer disposable productivity aids. In legal, compliance, HR, and audit contexts, transcripts and summaries are increasingly relied upon as records. Once that reliance exists, scrutiny shifts. Regulators and plaintiffs stop asking whether the AI was accurate and start asking whether the organization can reconstruct what actually happened.

Most cannot.