A plan to oversee AI-generated videos will be presented to North Carolina legislators on Tuesday.
The House Committee on Oversight and Reform is
scheduled
to discuss
House Bill 934
This would criminalize distributing audio or video of someone “appearing to say or do something they didn’t actually say or do.” Such manipulated media files are commonly known as “deepfakes.”
Breaking the regulations set forth in House Bill 934 could lead to a Class 1 misdemeanor charge, which might result in imprisonment. Additionally, this legislation allows individuals who have been targeted by deepfakes to take legal action against distributors of such content for compensation up to $1,000 per redistribution instance.
The collaborative proposal arises as worries over artificial intelligence systems intensify. These technologies can generate convincing false videos of individuals. The capability has already been utilized for such purposes.
deceive voters
Prior to the elections, it has similarly been utilized in fraud schemes to deceive individuals in North Carolina. WRAL News
reported
Monday on a Pittsboro resident who mistakenly paid thousands of dollars to a scammer who posed as her grandson.
House Bill 934 is not the only legislative proposal seeking to regulate artificially-generated content.
A separate bill,
House Bill 375
It proposes stricter punishments for individuals utilizing artificial intelligence to create pornographic content. Additionally, it mandates that political candidates or organizations must include disclosures on AI-produced advertisements if they are released within 90 days prior to an election. However, this plan has not been scheduled for a vote as of now.
Both pieces of legislation — House Bill 974 and House Bill 375 — require endorsement from the House, the Senate, and Governor Josh Stein before they can be enacted into law. In the previous year, state lawmakers submitted comparable bills that did not manage to get as far as reaching the governor’s office.
A
bill
That would have necessitated political organizations to include disclaimers on their artificial intelligence-created advertisements, which was approved without objection by the House of Representatives but did not progress further as it died in the Senate.
bill
The proposal that aimed to prohibit deepfakes in political advertisements was never brought up for a vote.
