Mandate disclosure of AI-generated political advertising

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Arguments for

Voter right to know

Proponents say AI makes it increasingly hard to tell what is real in political messaging, so Americans deserve clear labels when ads are machine-generated or altered. They present disclosure as a simple transparency tool that helps voters, journalists, platforms, and campaigns verify authenticity and distinguish fact from fabrication.

Americans deserve to know if what they’re seeing, reading, or hearing was made by a machine. This is a commonsense, bipartisan fix — we’re simply requiring that AI content come with a built-in label, so platforms, journalists, and everyday people can tell fact from fabrication. G…

Josh Gottheimer · Jul 1, 2026 · full quote
As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, identifying what’s real and what’s artificially generated has become a real challenge. The Spot the Fakes Act will bring much-needed transparency by ensuring AI-generated content can be clearly labeled, giving Americans the t…

Tom Kean Jr. · Jul 1, 2026 · full quote
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.

Brian Schatz · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote
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 they know that it's AI. [...…

Cisco Aguilar · 2025 · full quote
The public would benefit from greater transparency as to when AI-generated content is being used in political advertisements.

Ellen L. Weintraub · 2024 · full quote

Election deception risk

Supporters argue that deepfakes and realistic synthetic audio, images, and video can mislead voters, spread misinformation, suppress turnout, and erode public trust in elections. In their view, mandatory disclosure is an urgent safeguard against deceptive political content and manipulation.

Deepfakes and AI-generated audio and visual content poses major risks to consumers, our elections, and public trust. Clear labeling and transparency of this content must be required so Americans can distinguish what images, audio, and videos are artificially generated,

Valerie Foushee · Apr 24, 2026 · full quote
The rapid pace and scale at which AI-generated content is flooding social media, news feeds, and political advertising demands urgent transparency to protect American consumers.

Don Beyer · Apr 24, 2026 · full quote
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 have a responsibility to label …

Michael Bennet · 2023 · full quote
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 that [they] did not actually do …

Jessica Rosenworcel · full quote
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 will exploit this technology to…

Tiffany Muller · 2025 · full quote

Standards and accountability

Several backers emphasize that disclosure should be backed by technical standards, clear placement requirements, shared responsibility across developers, platforms, and advertisers, and real penalties for violations. They argue labels need to be meaningful and enforceable, not merely voluntary.

A federal framework that requires disclosure of AI-generated audio content, backed by NIST technical standards and FTC enforcement, is an essential first step toward protecting the human creators whose work these systems are trained on and imitating. SCL is proud to endorse this …

Ashley Irwin · Apr 24, 2026 · full quote
As longtime advocates for content provenance, Adobe supports this bill’s balanced approach that recognizes the shared responsibility of generative AI developers and digital platforms to provide people with meaningful context about the content they encounter. This legislation repr…

Jace Johnson · Apr 24, 2026 · full quote
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 they know that it's AI. [...…

Cisco Aguilar · 2025 · 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
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 Advertisements,” MB Docket No. 2…

Brennan Center for Justice · 2024 · full quote

Emerging labeling norm

Some supporters point to existing disclosure rules adopted by platforms and other jurisdictions as evidence that labeling AI political content is workable and increasingly expected. They argue the United States should catch up or help set a broader standard for disclosure and anti-circumvention.

Jurisdictions around the globe are moving to adopt common-sense rules around labeling AI-generated content – it’s time for the U.S. to catch up and in fact lead the world with a disclosure and anti-circumvention model that should be the global standard

Mark Warner · Jun 25, 2026 · full quote
Deepfakes and AI-generated or AI-manipulated text published on matters of public interest must be clearly labelled.

European Commission · Jun 10, 2026 · full quote
Political parties, candidates and campaign representatives are required to ensure that any synthetically generated or AI-altered content used for campaigning is clearly labelled as “AI-Generated”, “Digitally Enhanced” or “Synthetic Content”, along with disclosure of the originati…

Election Commission of India · Apr 19, 2026 · full quote
And in 2023, we introduced a requirement to disclose synthetic or digitally altered content in election ads.

Keerat Sharma · Jul 9, 2026 · full quote
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.

Thierry Breton · 2024 · full quote

Arguments against

Government overreach concern

Critics argue that even if more false and deceptive information is harmful, deciding how AI may be used in political advertising is not the government’s job. They say Americans should judge campaign speech for themselves rather than rely on official mandates.

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

Chilling benign AI uses

Opponents stress that AI use in election advertising is not inherently manipulative or fraudulent and can have beneficial purposes such as translation, subtitles, or creative illustration. They argue blanket disclosure requirements could chill innovative and empowering uses by campaigns and grassroots organizations.

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 AI. For example, AI could be us…

Jennifer Huddleston · 2023 · full quote
Requiring disclosures will discourage innovative and empowering uses of artificial intelligence, chilling campaigns and grassroots organizations from employing technological advances to their benefit.

Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression · 2024 · full quote

Authority and jurisdiction

Some objections are institutional rather than substantive: they argue the FCC lacks statutory authority to require AI-related disclosures or disclaimers in political ads, and therefore oppose agency-imposed rules in this area.

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

Bradley A. Smith · 2024 · full quote
For these reasons, the AAPC strongly opposes the FCC’s proposed rule on the disclosure of AI-generated content in political advertisements.

American Association of Political Consultants · 2024 · full quote

Middle ground

Disclosure for material uses

A more limited approach supports disclosure mainly when AI is used in a significant, photorealistic, or deceptive way, or when content is intended to mislead voters. This view treats AI use in political ads as not inherently good or bad and focuses warning labels on the cases where voters most need context.

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.

Lisa Murkowski · 2024 · full quote
“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 their opponent said something th…

Mark Spreitzer · 2024 · full quote
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 of AI, in certain cases. Unde…

Meta · 2024 · full quote
Verified election advertisers [...] must prominently disclose when their ads contain synthetic content that inauthentically depicts real or realistic-looking people or events.

Google · 2025 · full quote
We support strong protections against image-based sexual abuse, including efforts to criminalize the distribution of synthetic non-consensual intimate imagery and strengthen remedies for victims. We also support election integrity protections related to deceptive AI-generated pol…

OpenAI · Jun 3, 2026 · full quote

Insights

Many supportive quotes portray disclosure as giving voters context rather than banning AI from campaigns, leaving final judgment to the audience.
Support for disclosure comes from a wide mix of lawmakers, election regulators, platforms, technology companies, creative-industry groups, and international institutions.
At least some opposing quotes acknowledge that false or deceptive information is undesirable, but dispute government mandates as the proper response.
Several quotes reveal a scope dispute within the broader pro-disclosure camp, with some favoring labels for any AI-made content and others focusing on significant, photorealistic, or deceptive uses.
Technical provenance, standards, and enforcement recur alongside calls for disclosure, suggesting the debate also concerns how to make labels credible and useful.

Supportive quotes largely frame disclosure as a transparency safeguard that can help voters identify synthetic political content and limit the damage from deepfakes. The opposition centers on whether government should mandate that transparency at all, citing chilling effects on beneficial uses and concerns about agency authority. Several quotes also suggest the debate is not only about whether to disclose AI use, but about how broad the trigger should be and what enforcement or technical standards should accompany it.

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Keerat Sharma
Vice President and General Manager for Ads Privacy and Safety at Google.

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And in 2023, we introduced a requirement to disclose synthetic or digitally altered content in election ads.
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Sam Liccardo
U.S. Representative from California's 16th congressional district.

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The Spot the Fakes Act provides an essential tool in a much larger toolbox that we will need to empower American consumers to distinguish fact from AI fiction.
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Josh Gottheimer
U.S. Representative from New Jersey

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Americans deserve to know if what they’re seeing, reading, or hearing was made by a machine. This is a commonsense, bipartisan fix — we’re simply requiring that AI content come with a built-in label, so platforms, journalists, and everyday people can...
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Tom Kean Jr.
U.S. Representative from New Jersey.

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As artificial intelligence becomes more sophisticated, identifying what’s real and what’s artificially generated has become a real challenge. The Spot the Fakes Act will bring much-needed transparency by ensuring AI-generated content can be clearly l...
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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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John Curtis
U.S. Senator from Utah; former U.S. Representative; member of the Senate Commerce Committee

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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.
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Mark Warner
U.S. Senator from Virginia; former Governor of Virginia; Vice Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee

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Jurisdictions around the globe are moving to adopt common-sense rules around labeling AI-generated content – it’s time for the U.S. to catch up and in fact lead the world with a disclosure and anti-circumvention model that should be the global standa...
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Brian Schatz
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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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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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AI research organization

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We support strong protections against image-based sexual abuse, including efforts to criminalize the distribution of synthetic non-consensual intimate imagery and strengthen remedies for victims. We also support election integrity protections related...
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Fair Political Practices Commission
California state agency that administers and enforces campaign finance, lobbying, and political ethics laws.

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Staff proposes adoption of Regulation 18450.12 to add language clarifying the circumstances under which disclosure is required in campaign advisements that have been created or modified using AI, as well as amendments to Regulation 18401 to make expl...
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Generative AI can be used to create highly realistic content that is difficult or impossible to distinguish from authentic material, including deepfakes. We are not interested in being deceived, and we are not interested in our children being deceive...
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President of the Society of Composers and Lyricists.

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A federal framework that requires disclosure of AI-generated audio content, backed by NIST technical standards and FTC enforcement, is an essential first step toward protecting the human creators whose work these systems are trained on and imitating....
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Vice President of IEEE-USA.

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IEEE-USA welcomes this legislation which thoughtfully addresses the need to protect consumers from the possible negative aspects of generative AI, including how a combination of technical standards and requirements can inform how companies may disclo...
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We appreciate Rep. Foushee’s thoughtful bill to address the concerning and pervasive problem of AI deepfakes. The Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act would require clear labeling of AI-generated content so people can tell what’s real and what ...
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Vered Horesh
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Bria supports efforts to establish clear labeling standards and real accountability for generative AI outputs. The Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act addresses a basic but increasingly urgent need: businesses and consumers should be able to k...
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Authors Guild CEO

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The Authors Guild strongly supports Representative Foushee’s Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act. While we’ve developed a Human Authored certification mark, clear labeling of AI-generated content is the more effective solution. This bill requi...
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ASCRL believes the bill would give platforms an incentive to license visual author materials, possibly to avoid or to help them comply with the identification and provenance requirements. It is a helpful step towards the broader task of ensuring that...
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As longtime advocates for content provenance, Adobe supports this bill’s balanced approach that recognizes the shared responsibility of generative AI developers and digital platforms to provide people with meaningful context about the content they en...
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James Moylan
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Artificial intelligence is advancing rapidly, and while innovation brings tremendous opportunity, it also comes with real responsibility. Americans deserve transparency when AI-generated content is being used to influence, persuade, or deceive. This ...
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Don Beyer
U.S. Representative from Virginia's 8th district; co-sponsor of the GUARDRAILS Act on AI

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The rapid pace and scale at which AI-generated content is flooding social media, news feeds, and political advertising demands urgent transparency to protect American consumers.
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Election Commission of India
India’s election management body

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Political parties, candidates and campaign representatives are required to ensure that any synthetically generated or AI-altered content used for campaigning is clearly labelled as “AI-Generated”, “Digitally Enhanced” or “Synthetic Content”, along wi...
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Paul Holmes
Conservative Member of Parliament for Hamble Valley and Shadow Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government.

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The Opposition also think that the accountability in new clause 18 is very sensible. If we use AI, we should be honest about it—it is as simple as that.
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Daniel Hunt
Massachusetts State Representative and House Chair of the Committee on Election Laws.

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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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Bradley H. Jones
Massachusetts State Representative and House Minority Leader.

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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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Ronald J. Mariano
Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.

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As artificial intelligence continues to reshape our economy and many aspects of our daily lives, lawmakers have a responsibility to ensure that AI does not further the spread of misinformation in our politics.
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Amy Kuhn
Maine State Representative for Falmouth and House chair of the Joint Standing Committee on Judiciary.

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Maine voters deserve to know what’s real and what isn’t. Using artificial intelligence in political ads deliberately deceives voters and intentionally creates distrust in our elections. Requiring campaigns to disclose when something isn’t real will h...
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Lindsey Williams
Pennsylvania State Senator (D-Allegheny)

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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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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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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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[...] 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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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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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
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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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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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I look forward to [...] pass commonsense disclosure laws for AI-generated content in political ads.
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Maryland General Assembly
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Prohibiting a person from knowingly or with reckless disregard creating, using, or disseminating a deepfake to produce materially false information.
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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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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
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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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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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Samantha Dixon
Labour Member of Parliament for Chester North and Neston and Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government.

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Although we share the intention to strengthen transparency in digital campaigning, the Government do not believe that the new clause is currently workable or proportionate.
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Chris McIsaac
Governance Fellow at the R Street Institute, specializing in election reform and technology policy.

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Overall, the push toward protecting the public from exposure to deepfakes in political advertising through greater transparency is well meaning, but also a concerning expansion of the government’s role in regulating political speech.
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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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Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
Civil liberties nonprofit

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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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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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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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