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Comment by American Bar Association Task Force for American Democracy

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would prohibit the intentional distribution of “materially deceptive” AI-generated audio or visual political content related to candidates running for office.
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[🇺🇸 Congress, Mar 2025] Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates

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AI Unverifiable Year 2025 is acceptable. The quote is a descriptive passage from the ABA Task Force for American Democracy's 2025 final report describing the Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (S.1213), which "would prohibit the intentional distribution of 'materially deceptive' AI-generated audio or visual political content related to candidates running for office." On its own the sentence is neutral/descriptive, so I checked the Task Force's actual stance: independent web search confirms the report explicitly SUPPORTS laws like the Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act (and disclosure laws like Wisconsin/Arizona). Therefore the vote "for" on statement 417 (Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates) correctly aligns with the Task Force's endorsement. The report was released Sept 10, 2025 (co-chaired by Jeh Johnson and J. Michael Luttig), matching the source. However, the source_url (americanbar.org) returns HTTP 403 Forbidden and blocks WebFetch, so I could not directly confirm the exact passage on the page. Marking ai_unverifiable per protocol for blocked sources, though the stance and vote alignment are corroborated. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 8d ago
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