[🇪🇸 Congreso, May 2024] Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns

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  Adrian Shelley

  Public Citizen advocate

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  votes For and says:

  We support this bill because it broadens the law criminalizing the use of deepfakes [...]. AI-generated deepfakes are a here-and-now threat to our elections.

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  Tesh Sidi

  Spanish MP, Más Madrid/Sumar

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  votes For and says:

  During Spain's last presidency, we secured the AI Act, the European regulation on artificial intelligence, but here in Spain we have the opportunity to create laws and protocols that are much more protective of human rights and, above all, focused on...

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  Grupo Parlamentario Plurinacional SUMAR

  Spanish parliamentary group (Sumar coalition)

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  votes For and says:

  Promote an amendment to Organic Law 5/1985 on the electoral regime that includes a new offense of malicious distribution of images and voices generated through artificial intelligence, punishing the malicious dissemination, or dissemination without t...

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  N. David Bleisch.

  American lawyer and corporate counsel

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  votes For and says:

  How can bad actors be deterred from and held accountable for attempting to unfairly influence elections or falsely impugn election outcomes by using artificially generated deepfakes? The Task Force should propose model state legislation prohibiting ...

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  Ben Colman

  Reality Defender co-founder and CEO

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  votes For and says:

  Federal laws should outline penalties specific to the severity of using deepfakes and election disinformation crimes, as the State of Minnesota has done.

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  David Scanlan

  New Hampshire Secretary of State

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  votes For and says:

  when an AI in elections is intentionally deceptive and malicious. We need to be able to recognize it, stop it, and prosecute it.

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  Prince Chestnut

  Alabama state representative (D)

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  votes For and says:

  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 fals...

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  Grupo Parlamentario Confederal de Unidas Podemos-En Comú Podem-Galicia en Común

  Spanish parliamentary group

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  votes For and says:

  Those who, from the calling of the electoral process until the end of voting day, maliciously or without the authorization of the affected candidates disseminate images or audio of those candidates that have been altered or recreated by automated sys...

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  David Inserra

  Fellow for Free Expression and Technology at the Cato Institute

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  votes Against and says:

  A media environment with more false and deceptive information is not a good thing for our society, but it is not the government's job to fix it. [...] Let's trust the American people, not the government, to decide for themselves how AI should be used...

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  David Loy

  Legal director, First Amendment Coalition

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  votes Against and says:

  not the business of the government to use the force of law to punish speech [...] true or false. [...] significant First Amendment problems

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  John Coleman

  FIRE legislative counsel on AI speech

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  votes Against and says:

  This bill doesn’t meet that bar. It restricts far more speech than necessary to prevent voters from being deceived in ways that would have any effect on an election, and there are other ways to address deepfakes that would burden much less speech.

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  Carl Szabo

  NetChoice VP & General Counsel

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  It will result in the chilling and blocking of constitutionally protected free speech.

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  David Inserra

  Fellow for Free Expression and Technology at the Cato Institute

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  votes Against and says:

  The greatest fears of AI and elections have not materialized.

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  Dotie Joseph

  Florida state representative (D-North Miami)

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  votes Against and says:

  This is something that can be addressed in a civil way [...] we are fast and loose with criminal penalties.

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  Electronic Frontier Foundation

  We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online.

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  votes Against and says:

  malicious deepfakes [...] the bill imposes criminal penalties [...] interfere in an election [...] The First Amendment generally bars criminal laws.

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