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— Mr Reagan 🇺🇸 (@MrReaganUSA) July 26, 2024
An X user who used AI to create a campaign video mocking Kamala Harris in July for parotting her opponent former President Donald Trump’s campaign policies has sued to block new California laws that AI generated "deepfakes" around elections.
In the filing obtained by Forbes, which comes a day after California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom signed the legislation into law, plaintiff Christopher Kohls alleges the new laws are a flagrant use of “state power to force private social media companies to censor private citizens’ speech by purging election-related AI-generated content.”
Kohls, aka @MrReaganUSA on X, posted a video in July that appeared to be a campaign video for Kamala Harris, in which an AI-generated version of the Democratic nominee’s voice recited Trump campaign pledges and mocked her pedigree, calling her the “ultimate diversity hire." The video was shared by Elon Musk on X and has been viewed over 135 million times.
