A Florida Senate committee approved a new bill regulating artificial intelligence (AI) use in political campaign ads.
During a meeting, the Senate Committee on Ethics and Elections approved multiple campaign finance bills, limiting county commissioners’ terms.
Senate Bill 850 addresses the use of artificial intelligence in Florida politics.
Sen. Nick DiCeglie, R- St. Petersburg, the bill’s sponsor, told the committee that the legislation aims to address concerns relating to deceptive campaign advertising by requiring disclaimers on AI-generated political ads.
Di Ceglie said:
“The increasing access to sophisticated AI-generated content threatens the integrity of elections by facilitating the dissemination of misleading or completely fabricated information that appears more realistic than ever.”
“The technology that produces this content has advanced rapidly and outpaced government regulation.”
Just The News reported:
“DiCeglie added that the bill further defines generative AI as a machine-based system that can for a given set of human objectives, emulate the structure and characteristics of input data to generate derived synthetic content including images, video, audio and text.
Senate Joint Resolution 1114 and its implementing bill SB 1116 were reported favorably by the committee and is sponsored by Sen. Travis Hutson, R-Palm Coast.
The resolution would amend the state Constitution to repeal the public financing program for statewide elections.”
Sen. Tina Scott Polsky, D-Boca Raton, said the bill would help one party over the other due to Republicans having a larger bankroll.
“It is very clear that the Republican party has a lot more money, funding, outside groups, special interest groups who help pay for campaigns than the Democratic party has in Florida,” Polsky said.
“As a result, it seems that this would be a negative for Democratic candidates.”
Hutson’s SB 884 also clarifies the authority of the Division of Elections to audit campaign finance reports. It authorizes a candidate required to dispose of surplus funds and report such to, request the Division of Elections audit the required report.
Sen. Blaise Ingoglia, R-Spring Hill, sponsors SB 438.
The bill would create no longer than eight-year term limits for county commissioners.
SB 782 IS sponsored by Sen. Clay Yarborough, R-Jacksonville, would require precinct election boards to have one member of each of the two largest political parties in their respective membership requirements.
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