{"id":186509,"date":"2026-02-11T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/missouri-lawmakers-consider-limits-to-ai-identity-deepfakes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T17:49:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T22:49:53","slug":"missouri-lawmakers-consider-limits-to-ai-identity-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/11\/missouri-lawmakers-consider-limits-to-ai-identity-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"Missouri Lawmakers Consider Limits to AI Identity, Deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/missouri-lawmakers-consider-limits-to-ai-identity-deepfakes\">Missouri Lawmakers Consider Limits to AI Identity, Deepfakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/missouri-lawmakers-consider-limits-to-ai-identity-deepfakes\">https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/missouri-lawmakers-consider-limits-to-ai-identity-deepfakes<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-11 17:24:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.govtech.com\">www.govtech.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Missouri lawmakers are introducing bills to regulate artificial intelligence (AI) to prevent its abuse in political campaigning and to protect minors from explicit deepfakes.<\/li>\n<li>Sen. Joe Nicola&#8217;s bill requires disclaimers when AI is used in political ads and bans sexually explicit deepfakes of minors. It received bipartisan support at a Senate hearing.<\/li>\n<li>The bill clarifies that AI cannot be considered a \u201csentient\u201d being under state law, thus being held liable if harm results. <\/li>\n<li>There are no federal rules regulating AI use in election materials. Despite an executive order by former President Trump seeking to prevent state-level AI regulations, Missouri continues to push forward its measures.<\/li>\n<li>Proposed legislation aims to make it illegal to create explicit deepfakes of children below 18 and defines &#8220;intimate&#8221; AI-generated content to include nudity or pornography.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue lawmakers should carefully consider the &#8220;over-legislation&#8221; of AI technology, ensuring small businesses are not stifled while still protecting public rights and freedom.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri Lawmakers Consider Limits to AI Identity, Deepfakes https:\/\/www.govtech.com\/artificial-intelligence\/missouri-lawmakers-consider-limits-to-ai-identity-deepfakes Publish Date: 2026-02-11 17:24:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":186510,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/erepublic.brightspotcdn.com\/dims4\/default\/c692356\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/949x461+0+84\/resize\/1440x700!\/quality\/90\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Ferepublic-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F4f%2Fd1%2F9cddb33ae6670c87194b0158b01e%2Fshutterstock-1028052145.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-186509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186509"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186509"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186509\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":186511,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186509\/revisions\/186511"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186509"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186509"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186509"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}