Comment by Valerie Foushee

U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act
Clear labeling and transparency of this content must be required so Americans can distinguish what images, audio, and videos are artificially generated. This is a matter of personal safety, national security, and maintaining a properly informed electorate. AI Verified source (2026)
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AI Verified Quote attributed to Rep. Valerie Foushee (2026). The foushee.house.gov source_url returned HTTP 403 to automated fetching, but web search confirmed the press release exists at that exact URL and corroborated the quote verbatim: "Clear labeling and transparency of this content must be required so Americans can distinguish what images, audio, and videos are artificially generated. This is a matter of personal safety, national security, and maintaining a properly informed electorate." Year confirmed: she (with Beyer and Moylan) reintroduced the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act on April 24, 2026 (HR8479, 119th Congress), so 2026 is correct. Author attribution confirmed. Vote alignment correct: the quote demands mandatory disclosure/labeling of AI-generated content and explicitly invokes maintaining a "properly informed electorate," supporting the statement "Mandate disclosure of AI-generated political advertising" — matching the "for" vote. (The bill covers AI-generated audio/visual content broadly, which encompasses political advertising.) · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 17d ago
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