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Edgar Lin on regulating AI in political advertisements

By Frederica Freyberg | Here & Now

February 23, 2024

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Protect Democracy policy strategist and lawyer Edgar Lin discusses development of generative artificial intelligence and the potential for synthetic video and audio in campaign ads to deceive voters.

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