Mandate disclosure of AI-generated political advertising

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  Valerie Foushee

  U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district; sponsor of the Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act

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  Artificial intelligence is moving quickly, and Congress has a responsibility to meet this moment. My Protecting Consumers From Deceptive AI Act will help protect creators and creative work and ensure Americans know when they are viewing or interactin...

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  European Commission

  EU's executive body

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  Deepfakes and AI-generated or AI-manipulated text published on matters of public interest must be clearly labelled.

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  Lindsey Williams

  Pennsylvania State Senator (D-Allegheny)

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  votes For and says:

  Voters deserve to know when images and videos that they are viewing have been manipulated by artificial intelligence. Clear disclosure of the use of AI tools can help protect our elections from misinformation and misrepresentation. Transparency and t...

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  Pope Leo XIV

  Head of the Catholic Church

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  Content generated or manipulated by AI are to be clearly marked and distinguished from content created by humans. The authorship and sovereign ownership of the work of journalists and other content creators must be protected.

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  Cisco Aguilar

  Nevada Secretary of State

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  votes For and says:

  It's artificial intelligence. Are you using a computer to alter the image, to generate an image? We just want voters to know that if they receive campaign material, they see campaign material, they hear campaign material, and it incorporates AI, that...

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  Google

  Search and advertising company

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  votes For and says:

  Verified election advertisers [...] must prominently disclose when their ads contain synthetic content that inauthentically depicts real or realistic-looking people or events.

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  Amy Klobuchar

  U.S. senator from Minnesota

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  votes For and says:

  [...] we also need disclaimers [...] voters will know if the political ads they see are made using this technology.

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  Jocelyn Benson

  Michigan Secretary of State

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  votes For and says:

  disclaimers and disclosure of political advertisements generated with AI, and we have made it a crime for anyone to knowingly and deceptively distribute AI-generated deepfakes.

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  Meta

  Social media and AI company

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  We also introduced a new global policy that became effective in January 2024 to help people understand when a social issue, election, or political advertisement on Facebook or Instagram has been digitally created or altered, including through the use...

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  Mark Spreitzer

  Wisconsin state senator

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  “The use of AI to create a political ad is not inherently good or bad. Generative AI could be used to create a clever animation to illustrate a candidate’s views, or it could be used to create a realistic-looking video clip that makes it look like th...

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  Thierry Breton

  EU internal market commissioner

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  Political advertising will be labelled as such, and individuals will be provided with additional information, including on the use of artificial intelligence [...] in political advertising.

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  Lisa Murkowski

  U.S. senator from Alaska

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  votes For and says:

  Our bill only requires a disclaimer when political ads use AI in a significant way – something [...] we can all agree we’d like to know.

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  Yvette D. Clarke

  U.S. Representative from New York

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  votes For and says:

  I look forward to [...] pass commonsense disclosure laws for AI-generated content in political ads.

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  Narendra Modi

  Prime Minister of India

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  Deepfake and fabricated content are bringing instability in open societies. In the physical world we see nutrition labels on food to inform our decisions. Likewise, authenticity labels should accompany digital content so that people know what is AI g...

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  Tiffany Muller

  President, End Citizens United Action Fund

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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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  Ellen L. Weintraub

  FEC commissioner; 2025 chair

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  The public would benefit from greater transparency as to when AI-generated content is being used in political advertisements.

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  Michael Bennet

  U.S. Senator from Colorado

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  I write with concerns about your current identification and disclosure policies for content generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Americans should know when images or videos are the product of generative AI models, and platforms and developers h...

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  Nick Clegg

  Meta president of global affairs

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  votes For and says:

  Starting in the new year, advertisers will [...] disclose when they use AI [...] to create or alter a political or social issue ad.

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  Brennan Center for Justice

  Law and policy institute

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  votes For and says:

  On September 19, 2024, the Brennan Center submitted a public comment in response to the Federal Communications Commission’s request for comment in the matter of “Disclosure and Transparency of Artificial Intelligence-Generated Content in Political Ad...

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  Jessica Rosenworcel

  Chairwoman of the @FCC

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  votes For and says:

  The use of AI-generated content in political ads also creates a potential for providing deceptive information to voters, in particular, the use of 'deep fakes' – altered images, videos, or audio recordings that depict people doing or saying things th...

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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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  Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression

  Civil liberties nonprofit

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  votes Against and says:

  Requiring disclosures will discourage innovative and empowering uses of artificial intelligence, chilling campaigns and grassroots organizations from employing technological advances to their benefit.

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  American Association of Political Consultants

  Political consultants trade association

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  votes Against and says:

  For these reasons, the AAPC strongly opposes the FCC’s proposed rule on the disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertisements.

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  Jennifer Huddleston

  Senior fellow, Cato Institute

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  votes Against and says:

  It should be emphasized that not all uses of AI in election advertisements should be presumed to be manipulative or fraudulent. In fact, even when it comes to election advertising, there are beneficial and non-manipulative uses of technologies like A...

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  Bradley A. Smith

  Former FEC chair, law professor

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  First, the Commission lacks statutory authority to require disclosure or disclaimers on political advertisements that utilize “artificial intelligence.”

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