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Comment by Rodrigo Goñi

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Uruguayan National Party deputy
[Translated from Spanish] Obvious satire won’t be criminal... Identified AI deepfakes won’t be criminal... If it deceives citizens, it will have criminal sanction.
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AI Verified Verified. The Telenoche article dated April 4, 2024 attributes to Rodrigo Goñi that clearly satirical fakes and fakes labeled as AI-made would not be criminal. A second reliable Uruguayan outlet, Teledoce, quotes the fuller sentence and adds that if the fake is not so labeled and ends up deceiving the public, it would face criminal sanction. So the submitted English is a faithful abridged translation with ellipses, correctly attributed to Goñi, though the omitted qualifier about not labeling the fake is part of the full quote. ([telenoche.com.uy](https://www.telenoche.com.uy/nacionales/frente-amplio-no-acompana-proyecto-contra-las-deepfake-campana-electoral-n5365691)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Unverifiable Quote (translated from Spanish): Rodrigo Goñi (Uruguay, Partido Nacional deputy) — "Obvious satire won't be criminal... Identified AI deepfakes won't be criminal... If it deceives citizens, it will have criminal sanction." Statement #408 (criminalizing deepfakes/malicious AI in electoral campaigns), vote=for. Vote alignment is CORRECT — Goñi is the promoter of the Uruguayan bill to criminalize deceptive electoral deepfakes. The quote is about the whole meaning of the statement (the bill's core: punish deceptive AI deepfakes of candidates, while exempting satire/parody and clearly labeled AI content). Year 2024 older than 2025 but relevant, KEPT; I searched for a 2026+ Goñi quote on the same topic to add alongside but found none clearly dated to 2026 (all results pertain to the original 2024 bill), so I did not fabricate one. Source verification: source_url (telenoche.com.uy) returned HTTP 403 Forbidden on WebFetch. Web searches strongly corroborated the substance: Goñi's bill prohibits AI-generated/manipulated audio/audiovisual content falsely depicting a candidate to deceive voters (prison penalty), while content with clear AI-identification and parody/satire do not constitute criminal conduct — exactly matching the quote. Since the source URL is blocked from direct fetching, marking ai_unverifiable per protocol. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 7d ago
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