A Missouri House bill regulating deceptive AI-generated political ads garnered bipartisan support from lawmakers at a hearing Tuesday.
The bill would make it illegal to distribute deceptive political advertisements about a candidate or party within 90 days of an election, unless the advertisement carries a disclaimer about its use of AI. The bill also exempts news agencies and broadcasters, as well as media that constitutes satire or parody.
Republican representative Ben Baker sponsored the bill. Democratic representative Bridget Walsh Moore says she would vote for the bill but wished it didn’t have so many exemptions and that it had some harsher punishments for those that violate the new law.
Representatives from the League of Women Voters of Missouri and the Missouri Voter Protection Coalition spoke in support of the bill at Tuesday’s hearing.
(Story by Harshawn Ratanpal, Missouri News Network)
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