The Federal Election Commission on Thursday took a small step toward regulating socalled deepfake material in political ads agreeing to seek public comment on whether existing federal rules against fraudulent campaign advertising apply to ads that use artificial intelligence technology . The unanimous vote to allow public comment comes after the commissioners had deadlocked on the issue in June . Concerns have grown that the soaring use of powerful AI technology is outpacing efforts to regulate it on the campaign trail . It has already begun to crop up in the presidential contest. In June for instance Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis presidential campaign released a video on social media that appeared to use images generated by artificial intelligence to depict Donald Trump the frontrunner for the GOP nomination hugging Dr. Anthony Fauci a bte noir of the former presidents . The bills have not attracted Republican support so far. State lawmakers are moving to regulate the rapidly evolving technology. Roughly a dozen states have moved to target the use of deepfakes in the state. Meanwhile laws in four states California Minnesota Texas and Washington state take aim at deepfake campaign ads were enacted this year. The state legislatures are moving with alacrity . The state legislature is moving withAlacrity at the center of the conversation. Lawyer Matthew Ferraro said.com/Matthew Ferraro/Familius. Lawsuit: Deepfakes is not a partisan problem. It is a serious issue. It’s a serious problem. We are concerned that it is a very serious issue of deepfake. It has been a serious concern that it will be a serious and serious. It’s a serious matter. We need to get ahead of the issue. We want to address it. We’re concerned that we’ll need to
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