The Federal Election Commission should clarify in its regulations that political deepfakes are covered under the law against fraudulent misrepresentation, Public Citizen said in a comment submitted t
o the agency today. “Deepfakes pose a significant threat to democracy as we know it,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen and co-author of the comment. “The FEC must use its authority to ban deepfakes or risk being complicit with an A.I.-driven wave of fraudulent misinformation and the destruction of basic norms of truth and falsity.
”Rapid advances in artificial intelligence have given political operatives the means to produce campaign ads with computer-generated fake images, audio, or video of candidates that appear genuine, fraudulently misrepresenting what candidates have said or done. When A.I.-generated content makes a candidate say or do things they never did – for the explicit purpose of damaging the targeted candidate’s reputation – these ads are known as deepfakes.
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