CFB testimony - Ryan on Klobuchar federal bill comparison

The Council should look to the federal AI Transparency in Elections Act, principally sponsored by Senator Amy Klobuchar, for an example of a narrow scope of regulatory coverage.

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First, rather than covering all forms of communication, such as fundraising email created or edited by ChatGPT or Claude,

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the Federal AI Transparency in Elections Act applies only to an image, audio, or video that was substantially generated by artificial intelligence.

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Second, the federal bill's coverage is narrowed further by exempting images, audio, and video that have only minor AI alterations, including cosmetic adjustments, color editing, cropping, resizing, and other immaterial use.

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We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

that do not create a fundamentally different understanding than a reasonable person would have from an unaltered version of the media.

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This approach is similar to the version of the state's Stop Deepfakes Act passed by the state Senate on June 3rd, an exemption that was removed from the version passed by the Assembly on June 4th.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

Finally, the Klobuchar bill applies only when a person makes a disbursement for the purpose of financing a covered communication, effectively exempting from the law candidate reposts of social media content.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

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As an alternative or a complement, the council could apply the disclosure requirements of Intro 12A only in instances where candidates know or should reasonably know that the media they are distributing contains AI-generated content.

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We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

Narrowing Intro 12A in these ways might better serve the public interest.

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As currently written, Intro 12A requires disclosure not only of malicious synthetic content, but of all political communications that were, in whole or in part, created or modified using software that is simply capable of generating synthetic content.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

Given the ubiquitous incorporation of generative AI capabilities into design and other software, and the widespread use of chat GPT, Claude, and other text generation software,

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.

Intro 12A could require disclosure of nearly all political communication.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

The CFB may end up with a database filled with information about innocuous, immaterial uses of AI, muddying the water for journalists, law enforcement, and members of the public seeking information about malicious use of artificial intelligence.

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for deepfake images, audio, or video.

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We may inadvertently bury the needle of information the public wants and needs in a haystack of information that serves little or no public interest.

We sympathize with the perspective of both.

We wholeheartedly share your concerns about the ways that AI technology could be used to spread false information to intentionally mislead or deceive voters about council members and other city candidates and officeholders.

Limiting the disclosure law's coverage in the ways I suggested moments ago would help reduce the volume of extraneous information.

At the Campaign Finance Board, we have placed a priority on learning about artificial intelligence.

We have a unique perspective on this topic rooted in our dual mandate to serve candidates and voters.