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State legislator makes deepfake of colleague to prove deepfakes are bad

Representative Brad Thomas made the video in support of legislation that would ban political deepfakes.

George state Senator Colton Moore, a vocal opponent of legislation that would ban deepfakes of politicians, recently spoke out in support of a bill that would do just that. “The overwhelming number of Georgians believe the use of my personal characteristics against my will is fraud, but our laws don’t currently reflect that,” Moore said in a recent video. It’s safe to assume that an AI-generated image of Nikki Haley riding on the back of a pink rhino probably wouldn’t count.

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