New York would become the first in the nation to explicitly empower voters to file lawsuits against AI-made political deepfakes under legislation Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) aims to pass in the state budget due April 1.
Her proposal (Part MM) comes as legislatures in Arizona, Utah, South Dakota, and New Mexico also have targeted AI deepfakes ahead of the November election.
A bill (HB 986) in Georgia, a key state in the presidential race, would also criminalize deepfakes that misrepresent” a real individual’s speech or conduct.” The proposal had not received floor votes ...