This report is Ballotpedia’s second annual mid-year deepfake legislation report, following the launch ofBallotpedia’s Artificial Intelligence Deepfake Legislation Tracker in June 2024. One year later, we provide an update on the status of state legislation intended to regulate deepfakes.
Deepfakes are videos, images, or audio files that have been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence in order to realistically portray something that did not actually occur. According to theU.S. Government Accountability Office, "Deepfakes rely on artificial neural networks, which are computer systems modeled loosely on the human brain that recognize patterns in data. Developing a deepfake photo or video typically involves feeding hundreds or thousands of images into the artificial neural network, ‘training’ it to identify and reconstruct patterns—usually faces."[1]
For more information about deepfake policy in the United States from 2019 to present,click here.
Ballotpedia's State of Deepfake Legislation 2025 Annual Report
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