Friend,

Fake video, images, and audio created by artificial intelligence -- or AI
-- are becoming a major problem in our elections.

Last month, Elon Musk shared an AI-generated deepfake of VP Kamala Harris
degrading herself and saying she was “a deep state puppet.” It got more
than 150 million views in a single week.(1)

The voices and images of President Joe Biden, Rep. Alexandria
Ocasio-Cortez, and countless other politicians have been manipulated by AI
to spread dangerous misinformation.(2)

Congress won’t act. But California has just set the gold standard for
combatting AI election disinformation, and now we need states around the
country to follow its lead.

[ [link removed] ]Will you sign on to demand District of Columbia take action stop AI
deepfakes and other election disinformation?

The breakneck speed at which generative AI has evolved makes it
increasingly hard to tell the difference between authentic,
human-generated content and synthetic content generated by AI.

A Brookings report in January helped sound the alarm, saying, “generative
AI content has the potential to turbocharge campaigns designed to
undermine democratic discourse.”(3)

But Republicans in Congress don’t want to solve the problem. That’s why
states must step up -- and California just set the bar high.

Gov. Gavin Newsom just signed a suite of nation-leading bills that ban
deepfakes of candidates, elected officials, and elections officials in
political advertising or other election communications during election
season.(4) The new laws also require an AI watermark and detection tool to
root out unauthorized alterations. (5)

California leading the way is excellent. But we need to combat deepfakes
across the country, because every single vote counts.

[ [link removed] ]Will you sign our petition urging District of Columbia to follow
California’s example and combat AI deepfakes?

–Irene, Annie, Angela, Isidra, Mario, Marvin, Alyssa, Jen, Cecilia, and
Lindsay (the Courage team)

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