Election Committee Demands Clear Disclosure for AI-Generated Videos

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The Central Elections Committee will meet tomorrow for the first time and is expected to make a series of decisions that would change the rules in place until now. Among the proposed changes are clear labeling for the use of AI, advancing the deadline for submitting candidate lists, and a mechanism that would allow remote voting. Any changes approved will require Knesset legislation.

The Central Elections Committee will convene tomorrow, Thursday, for its first preparatory meeting ahead of the coming elections. On the committee’s agenda are a series of proposals to change arrangements that have been in place since previous election cycles, including efforts to combat campaign videos produced using artificial intelligence technology and to allow remote voting without changing an address. During the meeting, committee members may request discussion of additional proposals for further changes, some of which could be controversial.

Central Elections Committee. Photo: Yonatan Sindel, Flash 90

Among the items on the committee’s agenda is a fight against artificial intelligence. If approved, the committee will seek to amend the current situation so that every video created using AI will be required to include a clear label and disclosure that the content was produced using this technology. The committee will also seek a mechanism for handling petitions submitted to it by candidates and parties, and members will be presented with the unusual fact that this committee has received the highest number of complaints ever, even though the official election date has not yet been announced and the campaign has not yet begun.

Chairman of the Central Elections Committee, Justice Noam Sohlberg | Photo: Chaim Goldberg, Flash 90

The committee will also seek to approve bringing forward the deadline for submitting candidate lists from 47 days, as set by law, to 50 days. This would require the different candidates to organize within a shorter period in order to unite or split than was previously possible.

Another significant amendment is the proposal to allow voters who are not in their city of residence on election day, such as students, yeshiva students, and other populations, to submit a request up to 74 days before the election to register their polling place in another city, without having to move their residence address or change it in the population registry.

As noted, this is only the first meeting, and there may be other changes that committee members seek to introduce at this meeting or in later meetings, changes that would alter the accepted arrangements used until now in election campaigns.

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All proposals approved by the committee members will be submitted as a legislative demand in the Knesset, since most of them require changes to existing law in order to be implemented. It should be noted that if these are proposals approved by the committee members, which include representatives of the factions in the outgoing Knesset, the assessment is that these laws will pass by consensus, meaning the legislative process can be completed even after the Knesset is dissolved, under the customary procedure in which, during a transitional government, the Knesset adjourns except for the approval of laws that have the agreement of all factions.

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