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Comment by Jocelyn Benson

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Michigan Secretary of State
disclaimers and disclosure of political advertisements generated with AI, and we have made it a crime for anyone to knowingly and deceptively distribute AI-generated deepfakes.
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Mandate disclosure of AI-generated political advertising
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AI Verified The quote directly mentions requiring 'disclaimers and disclosure of political advertisements generated with AI,' which matches mandating disclosure of AI-generated political ads and shows support. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago
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AI Verified The quote explicitly references "disclaimers and disclosure of political advertisements generated with AI," which clearly supports requiring disclosure for AI-generated political ads. · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 4d ago

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AI Verified Congress.gov’s transcript of the Senate Rules hearing Administration of Upcoming Elections is dated March 12, 2024, and it labels the passage as Jocelyn Benson’s opening statement. In that statement, lines 931–935 contain the quoted wording verbatim, aside from the transcript’s line-break hyphenation of “AI-generated,” so the quote is authentic and correctly attributed. ([congress.gov](https://www.congress.gov/event/118th-congress/senate-event/LC72674/text)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote: "disclaimers and disclosure of political advertisements generated with AI, and we have made it a crime for anyone to knowingly and deceptively distribute AI-generated deepfakes." attributed to Jocelyn Benson (Michigan Secretary of State), 2024, source_url = congress.gov text of a Senate Rules Committee hearing (LC72674, March 2024). WebFetch on congress.gov returned HTTP 403, but a web search confirmed Benson's testimony content: Michigan requires "an appropriate disclaimer" / disclosure for AI-generated political ads and has "made it a crime for anyone to knowingly distribute materially deceptive, AI-generated deepfakes," and she called on Congress to pass the Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (written testimony at rules.senate.gov, 12 Mar 2024). The quoted sentence is a near-identical match to this (minor wording differences consistent with spoken vs. written testimony). Author attribution correct. Vote alignment correct: Benson supports criminalizing deceptive election deepfakes (Michigan did so, and she urges federal action), which is FOR the statement "Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns"; recorded vote is "for". Year 2024 older but still relevant; opinion kept and verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 9d ago
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