Comment by Prince Chestnut

There’s some people who may decide if they know there is punishment for it, they’ll say that maybe I won’t do this,” Chestnut said. “Maybe I’ll just do some negative ads but I won’t put out completely false information or depict this person on a false light.” Chestnut said there is a difference in traditional-style negative campaign ads and the worst examples of what could be done with AI-generated video or images. [...] “I think with these technologies that we have, we have the ability to undermine everything that we’ve come to know to be true in this country,” Chestnut said. “Our institutions really are at stake. So I think we have to set up some type of parameters, some type of guardrails, some civil, some criminal, where we’re saying this type of behavior is not acceptable for us as a society.”