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Regulate AI use in 2025 polls
By J.Lo
“Warning by DICT ,Department of Information and Communications Technology Secretary Ivan John Uy on threats that deepfakes and generative AI tools pose to electoral process should prompt us legislators to write new legislation regulating use of AI technology,” Rep. Luis Raymund Villafuerte, bill’s author said measure regulating use of artificial intelligence before May 2025 midterm elections amid cybersecurity threats and deepfakes has been filed before House of Representatives.
House Bill 10567 aims to regulate AI amid threat posed by proliferation of deepfakes or digitally altered images and audio or video recordings misrepresent victims.
Measure will penalize producers or distributors of deepfake materials who fail to make public disclosures altered images, audio or video recordings are deepfakes.
Violators will face fines of up to P5 million.
Deepfakes are meant to misrepresent real people as doing or saying something that was not done or said.
Uy earlier tackled rise of “scamdemic” using deepfake and generative AI tools.
“Deepfakes and generative AI tools are also threatening electoral process when unscrupulous individuals use them for political gain…especially during elections, where they use them whether to malign or to discredit certain people by attributing quotations or phrases that are extremely unpopular and then making it appear that that person uttered those statements, and that becomes even more destructive if they’re released few days before people cast their ballot, so that there is no more time anymore for real person to say, ‘I never said that,” he warned.
DICT has raised red flag amid hackers’ use of deepfakes and AI, could alter results of 2025 polls.
DICT Undersecretary Jeffrey Ian Dy called on House lawmakers to draft legislation regulating AI, especially creation of “misleading videos.”
Broadcasters and news reporters have been featured in altered videos on social media, they supposedly endorsed products or reported fake news, Dy told joint House committees of information and communication technology and public information, respectively headed by Reps. Toby Tiangco and Jose Aquino III.
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