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This Act may be cited as the ''AI Ads Act''.
Establishes the short title of the bill as the AI Ads Act. This section creates no compliance obligations.
(a) 1 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) 2 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 both subsections of 52 U.S.C. § 30124 — the fraudulent misrepresentation provision (§ 30124(a)(1)) and the fraudulent solicitation of funds provision (§ 30124(b)(1)) — to expressly include misrepresentation carried out through content generated in whole or in part with artificial intelligence (generative AI). This is a clarifying amendment: it does not create a new prohibition but ensures the existing FECA fraud prohibitions are understood to cover AI-generated deepfakes, synthetic voice content, and other generative-AI outputs used to impersonate candidates or solicit funds fraudulently.
(a)(1) 3 in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ''who is a candidate for Federal office or an employee or agent of such a candidate'';
(a)(2) 3 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) 4 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 scope of FECA § 322 in two dimensions. First, it removes the limitation that the fraudulent misrepresentation prohibition applies only to candidates and their employees or agents — after amendment, any person is subject to the prohibition. Second, it expands the universe of entities that can be fraudulently impersonated to include any candidate, political party, or real or fictitious political committee or organization, eliminating the prior requirement that the misrepresentation relate to a matter damaging to the impersonated party. The same broadening is applied to the fraudulent solicitation of funds provision. These amendments are not AI-specific — they apply to fraudulent misrepresentation by any means — but operate in tandem with Section 2's AI clarification to create a comprehensive prohibition on AI-enabled political fraud.