WASHINGTON – This week, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) released a draft of a proposed ‘interpretive rule’ in response to Public Citizen’s petition for rulemaking on artificial intelligence and campaign ads. Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, issued the following statement in response: “With deepfakes impacting elections around the world and increasingly popping up in the U.S. election […]
“The FEC is the nation’s election protection agency and it has authority to regulate deepfakes as part of its existing authority to prohibit fraudulent misrepresentations,” said Robert Weissman of Public Citizen. An announcement by the U.S. Federal Election Commission on Thursday that it will not take action to regulate artificial intelligence-generated “deepfakes” in political ads […]
