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This is Wired Politics Lab, a show about how tech is changing politics. I'm Leah Feiger, the senior

politics editor at Wired. A few months ago, a lot of people were concerned about how artificial

intelligence might affect the 2024 U.S. election. AI generated images, audio, and video had just

gotten so good and was so easy to make and spread.

The Wired Politics Team, in our project tracking the use of AI in elections around the world,

actually called 2024 the year of the generative AI election.

Lately, it seems like some of the panic around AI has subsided.

But deepfakes of Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, Donald Trump, and other politicians and their

supporters are everywhere.

And as we'll talk about today, legislation around political deepfakes, including AI-generated

pornography, is really tricky.

So with the election looming, what has changed, if anything, and how much

should we really be worrying about AI? Joining me to talk about all of this are two of Wired's AI

experts, politics reporter Victoria Elliott. Hi, Leah. Hey, Tori. And from Cambridge, Massachusetts,

senior writer Will Knight. Will, thank you so much for coming on. It's your first

time here. Yeah, hello. Thank you for having me. So let's start with porn, if that's okay.

Forie, you have a big article out today all about U.S. states tackling the issue of AI-generated porn.

Tell us about it. How are people handling this? It's actually like

really piecemeal. And that's because on a fundamental level, we don't have national regulation

on this. Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was herself the target of non-consensual

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