California’s New Anti-Deep Fake Bill | 27 Sep 2024

Recently, the California Governor signed three new bills aimed at countering the use of Deepfake in political campaigns.

About the Legislation:
- The legislation aims to protect election integrity by preventing the deceptive use of Deepfake and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in political advertisements, ensuring voters are not misled and safeguarding trust in democratic processes.

Bill	Provisions
AB 2655	Defending Democracy from Deep Fake Deception Act, 2024 Requires large online platforms to remove or label election-related deepfakes.
AB 2839	Elections: Deceptive Media in Advertisements Extends the prohibition period on distributing AI-generated or manipulated election ads containing deceptive content.
AB 2355	Political Reform Act, 1974: Political Advertisements: AI Mandates electoral advertisements with AI-generated, to clearly disclose the use of AI in their creation.

Deep Fakes are AI-generated synthetic media designed to deceive by manipulating visual and audio content. They are created using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs).
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