Before election season heats up, one state lawmaker wants to eliminate potential threats from artificial intelligence spreading misinformation in political advertising. Assemblymember Gail Pellerin, who represents District 28, plans to introduce a bill in the coming weeks to ban political advertising materials deceptively altered through AI. District 28 includes Santa Cruz, Los Gatos and parts of San Jose, which has been recognized as a nationwide hub for the AI industry. The bill targets false advertising tactics such as deepfakes — an image or recording manipulated to misrepresent someone doing or saying something not actually done or said — as well as altered robocalls that spread…
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