{"id":225667,"date":"2026-06-03T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T02:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/south-carolina-attorney-general-alan-wilson-calls-for-rules-on-ai-political-ads\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:15:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T04:15:47","slug":"south-carolina-attorney-general-alan-wilson-calls-for-rules-on-ai-political-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/03\/south-carolina-attorney-general-alan-wilson-calls-for-rules-on-ai-political-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson calls for rules on AI political ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/06\/04\/south-carolina-attorney-general-alan-wilson-calls-rules-ai-political-ads\/\">South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson calls for rules on AI political ads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/06\/04\/south-carolina-attorney-general-alan-wilson-calls-rules-ai-political-ads\/\">https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/06\/04\/south-carolina-attorney-general-alan-wilson-calls-rules-ai-political-ads\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-03 22:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.wbtv.com\">www.wbtv.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Artificial intelligence-generated political ads are increasingly common, raising concerns about their authenticity and impact on trust in the election process.<\/li>\n<li>South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson expressed disgust after seeing an AI-generated ad featuring a deepfake of him conversing with President Donald Trump.<\/li>\n<li>Critics argue that regulations around AI usage in campaign ads have not kept pace with the technology&#8217;s development, prompting calls for clearer standards.<\/li>\n<li>Political AI ads have emerged in various races nationwide but patchwork regulations exist, with no comprehensive policies in North and South Carolina.<\/li>\n<li>Alon Yamin, CEO of CopyLeaks, warns that many viewers may not realize the ads are AI-generated, and emphasized the international risk of deepfakes being used in foreign influence campaigns.<\/li>\n<li>There is a push for federal regulation to establish consistent standards nationwide, especially due to the vulnerability of older demographics.<\/li>\n<li>Tools like CopyLeaks are available to help detect AI-generated content in online ads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Carolina Attorney General Alan Wilson calls for rules on AI political ads https:\/\/www.wbtv.com\/2026\/06\/04\/south-carolina-attorney-general-alan-wilson-calls-rules-ai-political-ads\/ Publish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":225668,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gray-wbtv-prod.gtv-cdn.com\/resizer\/v2\/JU2PIX7UX5CAVCT6XQ6XAUZYJA.jpg?auth=195638308797c03623e6f5d96bf034e045c7179084010e54967be2696c55f9a5&width=1200&height=600&smart=true","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-225667","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\/225667"}],"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=225667"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225669,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225667\/revisions\/225669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}