The Democrat-controlled California legislature passed several bills next year intended to boycott “deepfakes”, require social media companies to prevent “deceptive information” during elections in the state, and control artificial intelligence.
The California legislature passed one of the rules before the August 31 date, according to The Post Millennial, the” Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024.” If signed by the government, the act would require a “large online platform”, which the policy defines as a “public-facing web site, web application, or modern application, including a social media platform”, to “block the posting of substantially false content related to elections in California, during specified periods before and after an election”.
The policy would also require huge online platforms to “label a certain amount of additional information inauthentic, fake, or bogus during a specified period before and after an election in California” and may need political campaigns to specify whether advertisements have been altered by arbitrary intelligence.
Social media companies and online platforms would be required to impose the prohibition on “deceptive content” 120 days prior to an election and 60 days after an election, according to the bill.
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According to the California law, “deceptive content” includes a political candidate being “doing or saying something that the candidate did not do or say and is reasonably likely to harm a candidate’s reputation or electoral prospects” or an election official “doing or saying something in connection with the performance of their elections-related duties that the elections official did not do or say and is reasonably likely to falsely undermine confidence in the outcome of one or more election contests.”
Deceptive content is defined in the law as “doing or saying something that an elected official did not do or say and is illogically likely to infuriate confidence in the outcome of one or more election contests.”
In addition to the” Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024″, the California legislature also passed the ,” California AI Transparency Act“, which mandates a person who” creates, codes, or otherwise produces a generative artificial intelligence system that has over 1, 000, 000 monthly visitors”, to give users access to an” AI detection tool” that can help residents determine whether content was” created or altered” by artificial intelligence.
The” Safe and Secure Innovation for Frontier Artificial Intelligence Models Act,” which establishes guardrails for artificial intelligence training, was also passed by the California legislature.
Gov. The state legislature has until the end of the month to veto or sign the laws that were just recently approved by Governor Gavin Newsom (D-Calif. ).
