AI-Generated Campaign Ads Evade US Election Officials’ Scrutiny

Republican members of the Federal Election Commission killed a proposal to regulate AI-generated “deepfakes” in political campaign ads.

Republican FEC Chairman Sean Cooksey, joined by two of his Republican colleagues, said in a draft notice they requested the commission discuss in the agency’s Aug. 15 meeting that the proposal goes beyond the agency’s statutory authority and the commission lacks necessary technical expertise. The proposal is unlikely to survive, since the Republican FEC members, which comprise half of the agency’s voting members, are proposing to end the pending rulemaking petition.

“The relatively limited use of AI-generated content in federal campaigns to ...