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2(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);''.
2(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 FECA § 322 (52 U.S.C. 30124) to state expressly that the existing prohibitions against fraudulent misrepresentation of campaign authority and fraudulent solicitation of funds cover misrepresentation accomplished through the use of content generated in whole or in part with the use of artificial intelligence (generative AI). For product counsel, the key point is that this is a scope clarification of a pre-existing fraud prohibition, not a new AI-specific labeling, disclosure, or governance duty. Political actors who generate campaign content with AI are on notice that doing so does not shield fraudulent misrepresentation from FECA liability.
Because the operative change simply confirms that generative-AI content is one vector for conduct already unlawful, it imposes no affirmative build-and-ship obligation of the kind captured by the compliance taxonomy. The practical instruction is negative — do not use generative AI to fraudulently misrepresent campaign authority or to fraudulently solicit funds.
3(a)(1)-(2) 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''.
3(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 FECA § 322's fraudulent-misrepresentation and fraudulent-solicitation prohibitions along two axes: it removes the requirement that the actor be a candidate for Federal office or an employee or agent of such a candidate, extending the prohibition to any person, and it expands the class of protected targets from another candidate or political party to any candidate, political party, or other real or fictitious political committee or organization.
This section is a non-AI structural amendment to the underlying election-fraud statute. It broadens who can be liable and whom the prohibition protects, but contains no AI-specific language and imposes no new AI-related compliance duty. It is retained here only because it modifies the same fraud prohibition that Section 2's generative-AI clarification attaches to.