{"id":231039,"date":"2026-06-13T06:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/ai-in-political-ads-michigan-law-requires-clear-disclosure\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T06:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T10:20:12","slug":"ai-in-political-ads-michigan-law-requires-clear-disclosure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/13\/ai-in-political-ads-michigan-law-requires-clear-disclosure\/","title":{"rendered":"AI in political ads: Michigan law requires clear disclosure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2026\/06\/13\/michigan-law-artificial-intelligence-disclosure-campaign-ads\/90510726007\/\">AI in political ads: Michigan law requires clear disclosure<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2026\/06\/13\/michigan-law-artificial-intelligence-disclosure-campaign-ads\/90510726007\/\">https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2026\/06\/13\/michigan-law-artificial-intelligence-disclosure-campaign-ads\/90510726007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-13 06:03:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.freep.com\">www.freep.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Michigan has established legal requirements for political campaigns to disclose when AI is used in their advertisements.<\/li>\n<li>State legislation signed in 2023 by Governor Gretchen Whitmer mandates that political ads showing AI-generated content must clearly disclose the use of AI.<\/li>\n<li>Non-compliance with Michigan&#8217;s AI-disclosure measures can result in criminal penalties, including fines and potential imprisonment.<\/li>\n<li>The use of AI-generated content by political campaigns is becoming more common, but voter AI literacy is lagging, according to Cliff Lampe from the University of Michigan.<\/li>\n<li>Michigan is one of 30 states with some form of law regulating the use of AI content and deepfakes in political messaging.<\/li>\n<li>At the federal level, there is no current legislation regulating the use or disclosure of AI in political materials, though existing federal advertising statutes require disclaimers for the payor of ads.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI in political ads: Michigan law requires clear disclosure https:\/\/www.freep.com\/story\/news\/politics\/elections\/2026\/06\/13\/michigan-law-artificial-intelligence-disclosure-campaign-ads\/90510726007\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-13 06:03:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231040,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.freep.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2025\/04\/29\/PDTF\/83353431007-04272025-trumpaf-16.jpg?crop=2399,1351,x0,y124&width=2399&height=1351&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231039"}],"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=231039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231041,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231039\/revisions\/231041"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}