[🇺🇸 Congress, Mar 2025] Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates

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Arguments for

Election integrity protection

Supporters say deceptive AI-generated campaign media can manipulate voters, spread misinformation, and suppress votes, so Congress needs guardrails to protect the right to cast a ballot based on truth. They frame the policy as a bipartisan safeguard against bad actors or adversaries using dishonest AI content against candidates and elections.

The health of our democracy is on the line as deepfakes and AI-generated content are being used to manipulate voters. If we don’t act now, our elections will be flooded with increased misinformation that threatens our ability to determine fact from fiction, [...]. My Protect Elec…

Julie Johnson · 2025 · full quote
Right now, we're seeing AI used as a tool to influence our democracy. We need rules of the road in place to stop the use of fraudulent AI-generated content in campaign ads. [...] This commonsense, bipartisan legislation would update our laws to prohibit these deceptive ads from b…

Amy Klobuchar · 2025 · full quote
I served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years as a cryptologist. While technology has the power to do a lot of good, it’s also important that we prevent our adversaries from using it to harm us. That’s especially true when it comes to our elections, [...]. The Protect Elections from Dec…

Tony Gonzales · 2025 · full quote
Our Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act closes that gap by banning misleading AI-generated content in political ads, safeguarding candidates

Brian Fitzpatrick · 2025 · full quote
The strength of our democracy relies on our elections being safe, secure, and accessible. As the use of AI spreads rapidly, we must ensure there are guardrails in place to prevent it from becoming a tool to suppress votes, spread disinformation, or purge eligible voters from the …

Alex Padilla · Jun 12, 2026 · full quote

Transparency for voters

Another pro argument is that voters deserve to know whether campaign material is real or AI-generated. Plain statements, disclosures, or labels are presented as a sensible, moderate way to help people make informed decisions and reduce false claims about candidates.

Voters deserve to know that what they’re seeing is real. That’s why the Legislature continues to strengthen our election infrastructure, and why we’re focused today on setting clear standards for the use of AI in election materials so we can guard against deceptive or misleading …

Daniel Hunt · Feb 11, 2026 · full quote
House Bill 5094 provides for greater election transparency by mandating the full disclosure of any artificial intelligence-generated synthetic media used in political advertising and establishing monetary penalties for violations.

Bradley H. Jones · Feb 11, 2026 · full quote
In March 2024, I enacted 2023 Wisconsin Act 123, which requires political candidates and political entities to plainly state when their advertisements are generated using AI to help ensure AI-generated content is not used by bad actors in political ads to make false claims about …

Tony Evers · May 1, 2026 · full quote
We should be ensuring that there is transparency and accountability within political campaigning, and we need to limit the level of mis and disinformation that could be spread through AI-generated material. Requiring that political campaign material be properly labelled when it i…

Lisa Smart · Apr 14, 2026 · full quote
Deepfakes targeting candidates for office would be prohibited within 90 days of an election unless a prominent disclosure appears with the deepfake communication.

David M. Scanlan · 2024 · full quote

Realistic deepfakes need limits

Proponents argue that sophisticated deepfakes of candidates can look real enough that voters cannot realistically tell they are fake, and unobtrusive watermarks do little to solve the problem. Because misleading media can have its biggest impact shortly before voting, they support targeted restrictions or penalties in the final days before an election.

This deepfake is a disgrace and the NRSC should put it down immediately. Political deepfakes are a profound threat to our democracy, because there is no realistic way for voters to understand they are seeing fake representations rather than real video. This deepfake has an ‘AI ge…

Robert Weissman · Mar 12, 2026 · full quote
Voters want accurate information. Deliberately misleading or abusive video of candidates must not be shared. Deepfakes are becoming more sophisticated and more accessible, as we have seen in elections around the world.

Vijay Rangarajan · Apr 15, 2026 · full quote
House Bill 5342 addresses a growing threat to elections: AI-generated “deepfake” videos, images, and audio used to spread misinformation about candidates. The bill would: Prohibit deceptive AI-generated media intended to influence an election; apply to manipulated videos, audio, …

Connecticut General Assembly Government Administration and Elections Committee · Mar 23, 2026 · full quote
My legislation will prohibit AI-generated or AI-altered video, audio, or images depicting a candidate for public office during the 90 days before an election, where the publisher intends to harm the candidate’s reputation or to deceive voters about the candidate’s conduct or posi…

Lisa Boscola · May 26, 2026 · full quote
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 …

Prince Chestnut · 2024 · full quote

Arguments against

First Amendment concerns

Opponents argue that the government is not free to punish speech merely because it is false or deceptive, and that using the force of law against political speech raises major First Amendment problems. In this view, the state should not pick truth and falsehood in campaign discourse.

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

David Loy · May 2, 2025 · full quote
The government is not free to punish speech solely because it is false for the simple reason that a critical purpose of the First Amendment is to prevent the government from picking winners and losers, or truth and falsehoods, when it comes to speech [...] A deepfake video [...] …

J. Kirk McGill. · May 2, 2025 · full quote
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 in political advertising and …

David Inserra · 2026 · full quote
malicious deepfakes [...] the bill imposes criminal penalties [...] interfere in an election [...] The First Amendment generally bars criminal laws.

Electronic Frontier Foundation · 2019 · full quote

Vague and overbroad rules

Critics say these bills can be poorly defined and overbroad, lacking clear definitions of AI or tight standards for what counts as materially deceptive. They warn that such laws may empower regulators to police speech or even penalize people for sharing content without requiring actual deceptive intent or effect.

The lack of a definition of artificial intelligence (AI) in this legislation is extremely troubling for free speech. S. 2770 would give un-elected, un-appointed career staff in the FEC’s Office of General Counsel initial authority to make recommendations to the Commission on whet…

Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) · 2023 · full quote
Virginia now looks to be going down a similar road with a new bill to penalize people for merely sharing certain AI-generated media of political candidates. This legislation, which has been in SB 775 and HB 2479, would make it illegal to share artificially generated, realistic-l…

John Coleman · 2025 · full quote
While well-intentioned, this legislation could potentially infringe on political speech [...] it lacks any requirement that the content actually be deceptive in intent or in effect.

Public Knowledge · 2025 · full quote
to prohibit the distribution of unpaid “materially deceptive” AI-generative audio or visuals concerning federal candidates is counterproductive.

Americans for Prosperity · May 15, 2024 · full quote

Better speech, not bans

A related objection is that false or bad political speech should be answered by better speech and voter judgment, not by new prohibitions. Some critics say these proposals restrict a diverse array of political speech and function more as protection for incumbents than as genuine election reform.

the best remedy for false or bad speech is true or better a speech, no law will save our democratic institutions

Ari Cohn · 2023 · full quote
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 in political advertising and …

David Inserra · 2026 · full quote
As for the effect on the use of newer generative AI tools, this isn’t an election protection act; it’s an incumbent protection act.

Neil Chilson · 2023 · full quote
The lack of a definition of artificial intelligence (AI) in this legislation is extremely troubling for free speech. S. 2770 would give un-elected, un-appointed career staff in the FEC’s Office of General Counsel initial authority to make recommendations to the Commission on whet…

Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA) · 2023 · full quote

Middle ground

Narrowly tailored safeguards

Some quotes point toward a narrower approach that tries to reconcile free expression with election protection: target realistic deepfakes of candidates used with intent to mislead voters, especially near an election, while allowing parody or satire and using prominent disclosures. Objections that some bills lack clear intent, effect, or definitions reinforce the case for tight drafting rather than broad prohibitions.

A proposta busca compatibilizar dois valores constitucionais relevantes: a liberdade de expressão e a proteção da soberania do voto e da própria democracia.

Rubens Pereira Júnior · Apr 7, 2026 · full quote
With the exception of parody and satirical content, the existing offence against impersonating certain electoral actors (e.g., the CEO, a candidate) with the intent to mislead voters will be expanded to ensure that it applies to realistic deepfakes.

Government of Canada · Mar 30, 2026 · full quote
My legislation will prohibit AI-generated or AI-altered video, audio, or images depicting a candidate for public office during the 90 days before an election, where the publisher intends to harm the candidate’s reputation or to deceive voters about the candidate’s conduct or posi…

Lisa Boscola · May 26, 2026 · full quote
Deepfakes targeting candidates for office would be prohibited within 90 days of an election unless a prominent disclosure appears with the deepfake communication.

David M. Scanlan · 2024 · full quote
While well-intentioned, this legislation could potentially infringe on political speech [...] it lacks any requirement that the content actually be deceptive in intent or in effect.

Public Knowledge · 2025 · full quote

Insights

Both sides describe AI-generated political media as potentially false or deceptive; they differ on whether government penalties or voter judgment should handle that risk.
Supportive quotes frequently combine bans with disclosure or labeling rules, suggesting many back a layered response rather than a pure prohibition alone.
Several supportive quotes narrow the policy by timing or intent, citing 90-day pre-election windows, intent to mislead voters, or realistic depictions of candidates.
Opposing quotes focus less on defending deepfakes themselves than on who decides what is deceptive and how much political speech a law could chill.
The quoted supporters include legislators, election administrators, advocacy groups, and large platforms, while the quoted opposition is concentrated among legal and free-speech advocacy voices.

The debate centers less on whether deceptive AI media can harm elections than on what kind of legal response is justified. Supporters emphasize protecting voters, candidates, and trust in elections from increasingly realistic deepfakes, while opponents warn that broad or vague bans could let government police political speech. Some quotes point toward narrower approaches based on intent, timing, disclosure, and clear exceptions.

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Advertisers must now use provided tools to label AI-generated content, ensuring you stay informed about the ads you see. And in 2023, we introduced a requirement to disclose synthetic or digitally altered content in election ads.
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AI-generated deception is becoming a routine part of everyday life. Deepfakes and synthetic media increasingly appear in our social media, political discourse, and even messages shared by trusted friends and family. Americans shouldn't have to play d...
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Readers deserve to know whether what they're reading was written by a human author or generated by a machine. As generative AI floods the market with synthetic books and articles, clear and conspicuous labeling is essential to protecting both the int...
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Audiences deserve to know what is real, ensuring consumers can make informed decisions about the content they engage with. Voice actors are already seeing their voices cloned, synthesized, and deployed without any clear disclosure. For audiences and ...
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As AI-generated content becomes more refined and realistic, people deserve to know whether what they’re seeing is created by a human or generated by artificial intelligence. Our bipartisan AI Labeling Act establishes clear, commonsense transparency s...
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People deserve to know whether the videos, photos, and content they see and read online are real or not. Our bill is simple – if any digital content is made by AI, it should be labeled so that people are aware and aren’t fooled or scammed.
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MEPs propose measures against malicious deepfakes and fraudulent ads.
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O uso da IA não deve ser tolerado para engano deliberado da eleitora ou do eleitor e para ataques ao sistema eleitoral.
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The FAIR Elections Act helps ensure our election laws keep pace with the realities of the digital age. Bad actors are increasingly using new technologies like AI to mislead voters while flawed data systems put eligible Americans at risk of being wron...
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The ballot box is the beating heart of democracy, and we must use every tool at our disposal to protect it. In the face of bad actors abusing AI to spread disinformation about voting to further dangerous voter suppression efforts, the FAIR Elections ...
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The strength of our democracy relies on our elections being safe, secure, and accessible. As the use of AI spreads rapidly, we must ensure there are guardrails in place to prevent it from becoming a tool to suppress votes, spread disinformation, or p...
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I don’t think artificial intelligence should be used to defame people… it just gets into a very gray area where you start to become so misleading that people can’t tell what’s real and what’s not.
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Advertisers are required to disclose when they use AI to create or alter ads about social issues, elections, or politics in certain cases. When an advertiser discloses this to us, we will add information on the ad and in our Ad Library.
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My legislation will prohibit AI-generated or AI-altered video, audio, or images depicting a candidate for public office during the 90 days before an election, where the publisher intends to harm the candidate’s reputation or to deceive voters about t...
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“I was at the inauguration of the president of the Superior Electoral Court [Minister Nunes Marques] and he said: ‘I’m going to ban artificial intelligence two days before the elections.’ And I thought it was wonderful,” Lula said.
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State lawmakers continue to lead the charge in protecting constituents from the threat of generative AI deceiving voters and undermining elections. As the 2026 midterm elections approach, and AI continues to evolve in its ability to create increasing...
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In March 2024, I enacted 2023 Wisconsin Act 123, which requires political candidates and political entities to plainly state when their advertisements are generated using AI to help ensure AI-generated content is not used by bad actors in political a...
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The Commission had further directed that any misleading or unlawful AI-generated or manipulated content shall be acted upon within 3 hours of being brought to notice of the social media platforms.
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Voters want accurate information. Deliberately misleading or abusive video of candidates must not be shared. Deepfakes are becoming more sophisticated and more accessible, as we have seen in elections around the world.
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We should be ensuring that there is transparency and accountability within political campaigning, and we need to limit the level of mis and disinformation that could be spread through AI-generated material. Requiring that political campaign material ...
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This new clause, like new clause 18 on the same topic, which I suspect the hon. Member for Hazel Grove may speak to shortly, is a much-needed step to improve transparency so that we know when material is produced using AI.
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A proposta busca compatibilizar dois valores constitucionais relevantes: a liberdade de expressão e a proteção da soberania do voto e da própria democracia.
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With the exception of parody and satirical content, the existing offence against impersonating certain electoral actors (e.g., the CEO, a candidate) with the intent to mislead voters will be expanded to ensure that it applies to realistic deepfakes.
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House Bill 5342 addresses a growing threat to elections: AI-generated “deepfake” videos, images, and audio used to spread misinformation about candidates. The bill would: Prohibit deceptive AI-generated media intended to influence an election; apply ...
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Our elections laws prohibit deepfakes that misrepresent election candidates.
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The private sector must proactively partner with civil society and the public sector to prevent irreparable damage to our democratic elections.
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Marc Berman
California State Assemblymember who has led legislation on artificial-intelligence policy, privacy, and election deepfakes.

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Six years ago, in 2019, I was the first legislator in the country to write a law to minimize the potential damage that could be caused by AI generated deepfake images, audio, or video depicting a candidate for public office doing or saying something ...
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Prohibit deceptive AI-generated media intended to influence an election.
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de divulgação ou compartilhamento de conteúdo sintético gerado ou modificado por inteligência artificial ou por tecnologia equivalente, em desacordo com as regras de rotulagem ou incidente nas vedações previstas na resolução
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Lawmakers have a responsibility to ensure that AI does not further the spread of misinformation in our politics. That’s why these bills are so important, as they mandate that campaigns disclose the use of AI in any political advertisements, and they ...
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House Bill 5094 provides for greater election transparency by mandating the full disclosure of any artificial intelligence-generated synthetic media used in political advertising and establishing monetary penalties for violations.
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The use of AI-generated deepfakes for the purposes of manipulating voters and disrupting elections is an attack on democracy.
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Voters deserve to know that what they’re seeing is real. That’s why the Legislature continues to strengthen our election infrastructure, and why we’re focused today on setting clear standards for the use of AI in election materials so we can guard ag...
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Robert Weissman
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This deepfake is a disgrace and the NRSC should put it down immediately. Political deepfakes are a profound threat to our democracy, because there is no realistic way for voters to understand they are seeing fake representations rather than real vide...
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We are living in the Wild West era of AI practices in political campaigns. As AI gets more advanced and deeply integrated into our daily lives, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to separate fact from fiction. Without clear guardrails, bad actors w...
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I served in the U.S. Navy for 20 years as a cryptologist. While technology has the power to do a lot of good, it’s also important that we prevent our adversaries from using it to harm us. That’s especially true when it comes to our elections, [...]. ...
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The health of our democracy is on the line as deepfakes and AI-generated content are being used to manipulate voters. If we don’t act now, our elections will be flooded with increased misinformation that threatens our ability to determine fact from f...
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The Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act would rein in this fraudulent misrepresentation in campaign messages.
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Our Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act closes that gap by banning misleading AI-generated content in political ads, safeguarding candidates
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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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Amy Klobuchar
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Right now, we're seeing AI used as a tool to influence our democracy. We need rules of the road in place to stop the use of fraudulent AI-generated content in campaign ads. [...] This commonsense, bipartisan legislation would update our laws to prohi...
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Prince Chestnut
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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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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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Business for America
Nonpartisan business membership nonprofit

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would ban the knowing distribution of materially deceptive AI-generated audio or visual media of a federal candidate
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OpenAI
AI research organization

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The bill would ban the distribution of deceptive AI-generated audio, images, or video relating to federal candidates in political advertising, [...]
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David M. Scanlan
New Hampshire Secretary of State

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Deepfakes targeting candidates for office would be prohibited within 90 days of an election unless a prominent disclosure appears with the deepfake communication.
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David Inserra
Fellow for Free Expression and Technology at the Cato Institute

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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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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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J. Kirk McGill.
Colorado attorney at Hall Estill

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The government is not free to punish speech solely because it is false for the simple reason that a critical purpose of the First Amendment is to prevent the government from picking winners and losers, or truth and falsehoods, when it comes to speech...
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John Coleman
FIRE legislative counsel on AI speech

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Virginia now looks to be going down a similar road with a new bill to penalize people for merely sharing certain AI-generated media of political candidates. This legislation, which has been in SB 775 and HB 2479, would make it illegal to share artif...
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Americans for Prosperity
Advocacy organization

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to prohibit the distribution of unpaid “materially deceptive” AI-generative audio or visuals concerning federal candidates is counterproductive.
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Mitch McConnell
U.S. Senate Republican leader

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So I will oppose S. 2770 or S. 3875 at this time. And I would urge my colleagues to do the same.
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Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA)
National bar association for Republicans

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The lack of a definition of artificial intelligence (AI) in this legislation is extremely troubling for free speech. S. 2770 would give un-elected, un-appointed career staff in the FEC’s Office of General Counsel initial authority to make recommendat...
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Neil Chilson
AI policy head, Abundance Institute

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As for the effect on the use of newer generative AI tools, this isn’t an election protection act; it’s an incumbent protection act.
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Ari Cohn
Free Speech Counsel, TechFreedom

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the best remedy for false or bad speech is true or better a speech, no law will save our democratic institutions
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Public Knowledge
Public interest digital policy group

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While well-intentioned, this legislation could potentially infringe on political speech [...] it lacks any requirement that the content actually be deceptive in intent or in effect.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online.

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