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Federal Election Commission Chairman Sean Cooksey pushed back on criticism this week that his agency is not taking necessary steps to stop political campaigns from using artificial intelligence-generated 'deepfake' images in election ads—but a leading advocate said Thursday that Cooksey's defense sent one clear message: Americans can't 'count on the FEC to defend us from deepfakes.
'The FEC's slow-walking of the political deepfake issue threatens our democracy,' Weissman said Thursday. 'The schedule described by FEC Chair Cooksey means that, even if the agency decides to proceed with a rulemaking on deepfakes, it's not likely to have a rule out in time for the 2024 election. That's intolerable.
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