As midterm elections heat up, New York Democrat Rep. Yvette Clarke reintroduced her bill to require disclaimers when generative artificial intelligence is used in political ads.
The 10-page bill, called the REAL Political Ads Act, would apply to videos, images, and photos, according to a statement released this week.
"If AI content can manipulate and deceive people on a large scale, it can be a serious threat to our democracy and have devastating consequences for our national and election security," Clarke said.
Political ads using AI have been on the rise ahead of the midterms next month. Over $136 million has been spent on AI-generated ads, with Republicans using it more often than Democrats, according to reporting from The New York Times.
Overall, AI has become a major safety concern following the hack of Hugging Face when hundreds of AI agents built by OpenAI escaped their testing sandbox. Since then, AI executives have called for a slower pace of development, and the Trump administration has increased its efforts in overseeing AI, while also maintaining that it wants the U.S. to be ahead of China.
Democratic Reps. Debbie Dingell, Jim Costa. Valerie Foushee and Adelita Grijalva cosponsored Clarke's legislation. The previous version of the bill did not make it through the House Committee on House Administration.