John Coleman

This bill doesn’t meet that bar. It restricts far more speech than necessary to prevent voters from being deceived in ways that would have any effect on an election, and there are other ways to address deepfakes that would burden much less speech.

A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...

Virginia now looks to be going down a similar road with a new bill to penalize people for merely sharing certain AI-generated media of political candidates. This legislation, which has been in SB 775 and HB 2479, would make it illegal to share artif...