North Carolina HB 375: Franklinville/Liberty/Ramseur/Roxboro Boundary.

Bill Text

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2025
H 1
HOUSE BILL 375

Short Title: AI/Ban Deceptive Ads. (Public)
Sponsors: Representatives Warren, Davis, Schietzelt, and Blust (Primary Sponsors).
For a complete list of sponsors, refer to the North Carolina General Assembly web site.
Referred to: Commerce and Economic Development, if favorable, Election Law, if favorable,
Judiciary 2, if favorable, Rules, Calendar, and Operations of the House
March 13, 2025
*H375-v-1*
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED 1
AN ACT TO REGULATE THE USE OF DEEPFAKES AND DECEPTIVE 2
ADVERTISEMENTS IN ELECTIONS AND PROTECT MINORS AND THE GENERAL 3
PUBLIC FROM MISUSE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND SYNTHETIC MEDIA. 4
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts: 5
SECTION 1. The General Statutes are amended by adding a new Chapter to read: 6
"Chapter 170. 7
"Artificial Intelligence and Synthetic Media. 8
"Article 1. 9
"Political Campaigns. 10
"§ 170-1. Title; definitions. 11
(a) This Chapter shall be known and may be cited as the "Artificial Intelligence and 12
Synthetic Media Act." 13
(b) The following definitions apply in this Chapter: 14
(1) Artificial intelligence or AI. – A machine-based system that can, for a given 15
set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations, or 16
decisions influencing real or virtual environments. 17
(2) Creator. – A person that uses artificial intelligence to generate synthetic 18
media. The term does not include a person that solely provides the technology 19
used in the creation of the synthetic media. 20
(3) Deceptive and fraudulent deepfake. – Synthetic media that depicts a candidate 21
or political party with the intent to injure the reputation of the candidate or 22
political party or otherwise deceive a voter and that either: 23
a. Appears to a reasonable person to depict a real individual saying or 24
doing something that did not actually occur in reality; or 25
b. Provides to a reasonable person a fundamentally different 26
understanding or impression of the appearance, action, or speech in an 27
image, audio recording, or video recording than a reasonable person 28
would have from an unaltered, original version of the image, audio 29
recording, or video recording. 30
(4) Deepfake. – A video, audio, or any other media of a person in which the 31
person's face, body, or voice has been digitally altered so that the person 32
appears to be someone else, the person appears to be saying something that 33

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the person has never said, or the person appears to be doing something that 1
the person has never done. 2
(5) Digital content provenance. – Purely factual information that details a digital 3
resource's creator, origin, context, history, and editing process; and conforms 4
to an open industry technical standard. 5
(6) Digital impersonation. – Synthetic media, typically video or audio, that: 6
a. Has been digitally manipulated to convincingly replace one person's 7
likeness or voice with that of another using deep generative methods 8
and artificial intelligence techniques, or for which one person's 9
likeness or voice has otherwise been simulated using deep generative 10
methods and artificial intelligence techniques; 11
b. Was created with the intention to deceive or lead reasonable listeners 12
or viewers into believing that the content is authentic; 13
c. Reasonable viewers or listeners would believe actually represents the 14
person's voice or likeness; 15
d. Would cause reasonable viewers or listeners to conclude that the 16
recording or image is a true and accurate depiction of something the 17
person said or did; 18
e. Is not commentary, parody, satire, criticism, or artistic expression; and 19
f. Was not created by the person or with the person's consent. 20
(7) Digitization. – Creating or altering an image of a person in a realistic manner 21
utilizing images of another person or computer-generated images, regardless 22
of whether the creation or alteration is accomplished manually or through an 23
automated process. The term includes, but is not limited to, creation or 24
alteration of an image with the use of artificial intelligence. 25
(8) Fabricated intimate image. – Any photograph, motion picture film, videotape, 26
digital image, or any other recording or transmission of another person who is 27
identifiable from the image itself or from information displayed with or 28
otherwise connected to the image, and that was created or altered by 29
digitization to depict: 30
a. Computer-generated intimate body parts or the intimate body parts of 31
another person as the intimate body parts of the depicted person, 32
whether nude or visible through less than opaque clothing and 33
including the genitals, pubic area, anus, or postpubescent female 34
nipple; or 35
b. The depicted person engaging in sexual conduct in which the depicted 36
person did not actually engage. 37
(9) Generative artificial intell