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(a) 1 FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION.—Section 322(a)(1) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30124(a)(1)) is amended by striking the semicolon and inserting the following: '', including through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI);''.
(b) 1 FRAUDULENT SOLICITATION OF FUNDS.—Section 322(b)(1) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30124(b)(1)) is amended by striking the semicolon and inserting the following: '', including through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI);''.
Section 2 amends the Federal Election Campaign Act's fraudulent-misrepresentation and fraudulent-solicitation prohibitions (52 U.S.C. 30124(a)(1) and (b)(1)) to make explicit that these bans reach misrepresentation accomplished through content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI). The change is a clarifying insertion rather than a new operative rule — it confirms that AI-generated deepfakes, synthetic voice, or other generative outputs used to fraudulently misrepresent campaign authority or to fraudulently solicit funds are already covered conduct.
For product counsel, the practical effect is that generative-AI outputs used to impersonate political committees or candidates in fundraising or authority contexts are squarely within the scope of existing federal election-fraud liability. The provision imposes no affirmative labeling, disclosure, or compliance-program duty on AI developers or platforms; it operates on the persons who misrepresent, and the AI-generation clause is a scope clarification within an existing fraud prohibition.
(a) FRAUDULENT MISREPRESENTATION.—Section 322(a) of the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 (52 U.S.C. 30124(a)) is amended— (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ''who is a candidate for Federal office or an employee or agent of such a candidate''; and (2) in paragraph (1), by striking ''any other candidate or political party or employee or agent thereof on a matter which is damaging to such other candidate or political party or employee or agent thereof'' and inserting ''any candidate, political party, or other real or fictitious political committee or organization, or employee or agent of such a candidate, political party, or political committee or organization''.
(b) FRAUDULENT SOLICITATION OF FUNDS.—Section 322(b)(1) of such Act (52 U.S.C. 30124(b)(1)) is amended by striking ''any candidate or political party or employee or agent thereof'' and inserting ''any candidate, political party, or other real or fictitious political committee or organization, or employee or agent of such a candidate, political party, or political committee or organization''.
Section 3 broadens the underlying FECA prohibition that Section 2 clarifies. It strikes the requirement that the speaker be a candidate for federal office or a candidate's employee or agent, and it strikes the requirement that the target be another candidate or party on a matter damaging to that target. In their place it substitutes coverage of misrepresentation of any candidate, political party, or other real or fictitious political committee or organization, by any person for any purpose.
This section contains no AI-specific text — it is a general expansion of the election-fraud prohibition's scope. It is retained here because it defines the reach of the prohibition to which the Section 2 generative-AI clarification attaches, materially widening who can be liable and whom they can be liable for impersonating.