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Committee amends bill to ban AI impersonation, exempts routine text edits
Summary
The Government and Veterans Affairs Committee amended House Bill 1167 to prohibit creating AI-generated visual or audible impersonations of a human while exempting routine text uses such as grammar, spelling and stylistic edits; the committee gave the bill a due-pass recommendation as amended.
The Government and Veterans Affairs Committee amended House Bill 1167 on artificial-intelligence protections to make it unlawful to “impersonate visually or audibly a human” using AI while exempting routine text uses such as text generation solely for grammar correction, spelling checks, stylistic editing or enhancing existing content.
Representative Josh Warrie, the bill sponsor, told the committee the goal is narrow: to block human impersonation online without banning everyday uses of AI tools. "The core thing they're trying to block is human impersonation," Warrie said, adding the amendment was…
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