It is now 'even more imperative that Congress and states act immediately to outlaw deceptive deepfakes in elections,' said Public_Citizen president Rob_Weissman.
for rulemaking urging the agency "to specify in regulation or guidance that if candidates or their agents fraudulently misrepresent other candidates or political parties through deliberately false AI-generated content in campaign ads, that the restrictions and penalties of 52 U.S.C. §30124 are applicable."
The petition states that "a deepfake audio clip or video by a candidate or their agent that purports to show an opponent saying or doing something they did not do would violate this provision of the law." Because "federal law already prohibits the kind of fraudulent misrepresentation that generative AI now makes possible," Public Citizen
last month, "there is ample basis for an FEC rule banning or severely restricting AI in political campaigns."on Thursday, the FEC shot down the advocacy group's request to open a full rulemaking process to curb the use of political deepfakes, refusing to even publish the petition in the Federal Register, which would have allowed for public input on the matter.
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