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

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  Robert Weissman

  President, Public Citizen

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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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  Tiffany Muller

  President, End Citizens United Action Fund

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  votes For and says:

  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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  Tony Gonzales

  U.S. Representative (R–Texas)

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  votes For and says:

  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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  Julie Johnson

  U.S. Representative (D–Texas)

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  votes For and says:

  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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  Craig Holman

  Public Citizen democracy advocate

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  votes For and says:

  The Protect Elections from Deceptive AI Act would rein in this fraudulent misrepresentation in campaign messages.

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  Brian Fitzpatrick

  U.S. Representative (PA-1)

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  votes For and says:

  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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  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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  Amy Klobuchar

  U.S. senator from Minnesota

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  votes For and says:

  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

  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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  Business for America

  Nonpartisan business membership nonprofit

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  votes For and says:

  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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  votes For and says:

  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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  votes For and says:

  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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  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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  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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  votes Against and says:

  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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  votes Against and says:

  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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  votes Against and says:

  to prohibit the distribution of unpaid “materially deceptive” AI-generative audio or visuals concerning federal candidates is counterproductive.

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  Republican National Lawyers Association (RNLA)

  National bar association for Republicans

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  votes Against and says:

  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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  votes Against and says:

  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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  votes Against and says:

  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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  Mitch McConnell

  U.S. Senate Republican leader

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  votes Against and says:

  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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  Public Knowledge

  Public interest digital policy group

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  votes Against and says:

  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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  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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