California Lawmakers Approve Legislation to Ban Election-Related Deepfakes
Summary from the AllSides News Team
California’s Democrat-controlled state legislature approved proposals this week that aim to regulate artificial intelligence and combat the use of deepfakes ahead of the upcoming elections.
The Details: According to The Associated Press (Lean Left bias), the legislation will “ban deepfakes related to elections and require large social media platforms to remove the deceptive material 120 days before Election Day and 60 days thereafter.” Political campaigns will also be required to publicly disclose if any of their advertising materials are altered by AI.
For Context: In the final week of its session, the California Legislature is voting on hundreds of bills to send to Governor Gavin Newsom’s desk before its Saturday deadline. Newsom will have until September 30 to sign the proposals, veto them, or allow them to become law without his signature. In July, he said he would sign a proposal to crack down on deepfakes that pertain to elections but has not commented on other legislative proposals.
How The Media Covered It: The news was first reported by AP, whose coverage was republished by several outlets across the media spectrum. Jazz Shaw of HotAir (Lean Right bias) published an opinion in which he described the deepfake law as “overly broad” and suggested California may be “sailing into some very murky legal waters.”
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From the Left
California lawmakers approve legislation to ban deepfakes, protect workers and regulate AICalifornia lawmakers approved a host of proposals this week aiming to regulate the artificial intelligence industry, combat deepfakes and protect workers from exploitation by the rapidly evolving technology.
The California Legislature, which is controlled by Democrats, is voting on hundreds of bills during its final week of the session to send to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s desk. Their deadline is Saturday.
The Democratic governor has until Sept. 30 to sign the proposals, veto them or let them become law without his signature. Newsom signaled in July he will sign a proposal to crack...
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California to Ban Deepfakes, Regulate AIThe California state legislator just closed out its current session by passing a massive raft of new bills and sending them to Governor Gavin Newsom's desk for final approval. The majority of the legislation is just the usual housekeeping and budgetary requirements, but a couple of the bills merit further attention. One of these is a proposed ban on election "deepfake" videos and images. The other would mandate additional regulation of the artificial intelligence industry and seek to protect human jobs and careers that are currently being endangered by this...
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