A lawsuit has already been filed against Gov. Gavin Newsom's new bills, claiming the new laws infringe on free speech.

Appearing at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom discussed the impact of artificial intelligence and guardrails for the technology in regards to election campaigns.

Yesterday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed two anti-deepfake bills into law that prohibit the distribution of deepfakes related to elections and require social media platforms to label and provide mechanisms to report them. The laws allow victims and politicians to now sue if companies don’t enforce the new regulation.

Gov. Gavin Newsom signed several bills targeting election misinformation while onstage Tuesday at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco, even as he hinted at his hesitancy to approve more sweeping regulation of the artificial intelligence industry.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed legislation Tuesday banning “deepfakes" but X owner Elon Musk quickly reshared an unflattering AI-doctored video of Vice President Kamala Harris.

Appearing at San Francisco's Dreamforce conference, California Governor Gavin Newsom on Tuesday signed a series of bills in order to combat deepfake election content.

California now has the nation’s most aggressive law in place on AI-generated content before the November election.

Gavin Newsom signed two bills on Monday that protect performers from being digitally replicated without their consent.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed two bills today designed to give greater protections to performers and others over the use of their digital likenesses during their lives and to their estates. Newsom signed the legislation at the Los Angeles headquarters of SAG-AFTRA,

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills Tuesday to crack down on the use of artificial intelligence to create false images or videos in political ads ahead of the 2024 election.