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US judge enjoins California law regulating use of AI during elections, citing First Amendment protections

( October 2, 2024, 14:42 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: A federal judge in California enjoined a California law regulating the use of generative AI "deep fakes" during elections, AB 2839, because the law is potentially unconstitutional and don't pass strict scrutiny because there likely could have been a less-restrictive way to depict "deep-fake" images online. The law should receive strict scrutiny because  "the political context is one such setting that would be especially 'perilous' for the government to be an arbiter of truth in," said US District Judge John A. Mendez.See attached document....

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