![Gary Mccullough Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz steps out of his truck during campaigning in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Sainz said he thinks his opponent's use of artificial intelligence “hides behind what amounts to a robot instead of authentically communicating his opinions to voters. ... I’m not running on artificially generated promises, but real world results,” adding that he isn’t using AI in his own campaign. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/6733c153e49f42d9a4fb7fbe881e5d5f/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz steps out of his truck during campaigning in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Sainz said he thinks his opponent's use of artificial intelligence “hides behind what amounts to a robot instead of authentically communicating his opinions to voters. ... I’m not running on artificially generated promises, but real world results,” adding that he isn’t using AI in his own campaign. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Gary Mccullough Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz shakes hands with Mike Perry, right, while campaigning at a coffee shop in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Perry, a Sainz voter, says the expanded use of AI in politics is inevitable, but wondered how voters would be able to differentiate between what's true and what's not. “It’s free speech, you know, and I don’t want to discourage free speech, but it comes down to the integrity of the people putting it out," he said. "And I don’t know how you regulate integrity. It’s pretty tough.” (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/1097633ad121488f8616b4f62f239e6a/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz shakes hands with Mike Perry, right, while campaigning at a coffee shop in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Perry, a Sainz voter, says the expanded use of AI in politics is inevitable, but wondered how voters would be able to differentiate between what's true and what's not. “It’s free speech, you know, and I don’t want to discourage free speech, but it comes down to the integrity of the people putting it out," he said. "And I don’t know how you regulate integrity. It’s pretty tough.” (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Nam Y. Huh Adrian Perkins looks at the view from his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/858fe4f09acf4d3c9cbaabc03ae3c72b/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Adrian Perkins looks at the view from his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
![Gary Mccullough Glenn Cook, a Republican campaigning door-to-door for a seat in the Georgia state House, speaks with Perla Smith, left, in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. By using artificial intelligence generated content in his campaign, he says the savings – in both time and money – have let him knock on more doors in the district and attend more in-person campaign events. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/67de46e5cebd4d3f81bed799a13fdef8/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Glenn Cook, a Republican campaigning door-to-door for a seat in the Georgia state House, speaks with Perla Smith, left, in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. By using artificial intelligence generated content in his campaign, he says the savings – in both time and money – have let him knock on more doors in the district and attend more in-person campaign events. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Nam Y. Huh Adrian Perkins opens a door in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/4e7db8d6cc9c4728b42fe03709db942e/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Adrian Perkins opens a door in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
![Nam Y. Huh Adrian Perkins stands for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/19a772131a8241ea9e041fee83d2becf/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Adrian Perkins stands for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
![Gary Mccullough Glenn Cook, a Republican campaigning for a seat in the Georgia state House, speaks with a driver in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/0af4b9241b1f402092a47f3eba13f683/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Glenn Cook, a Republican campaigning for a seat in the Georgia state House, speaks with a driver in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Gary Mccullough Glenn Cook campaigns door-to-door for a seat in the Georgia state House in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Cook, a Republican, is less well known and has much less campaign cash than the incumbent he is facing in a runoff election. So, he has invested in a digital consultant who creates much of his campaign’s content using inexpensive, publicly available generative AI models. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/e5aad739fc6b49dfa0f72cb5685f49cd/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Glenn Cook campaigns door-to-door for a seat in the Georgia state House in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. Cook, a Republican, is less well known and has much less campaign cash than the incumbent he is facing in a runoff election. So, he has invested in a digital consultant who creates much of his campaign’s content using inexpensive, publicly available generative AI models. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Uncredited This combination of images assembled in June 2024 shows some of the images that appear in an online blog for Glenn Cook, a Republican running for a state legislative seat in southeastern Georgia. The campaign says artificial intelligence was used to to generate them. AI-generated podcast episodes use a cloned version of his voice to narrate his policy positions. (AP Photo)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/34e53cfbd88f411f89a18b23fc2652f2/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
This combination of images assembled in June 2024 shows some of the images that appear in an online blog for Glenn Cook, a Republican running for a state legislative seat in southeastern Georgia. The campaign says artificial intelligence was used to to generate them. AI-generated podcast episodes use a cloned version of his voice to narrate his policy positions. (AP Photo)
![Nam Y. Huh Adrian Perkins, former mayor of Shreveport, La., sits for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. “One hundred percent the deepfake ad affected our campaign because we were a down-ballot, less resourced place,” said Perkins, a Democrat. “You had to pick and choose where you put your efforts.” (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/4b2ac661d52e430cb1d58f6c66dbab17/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Adrian Perkins, former mayor of Shreveport, La., sits for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. “One hundred percent the deepfake ad affected our campaign because we were a down-ballot, less resourced place,” said Perkins, a Democrat. “You had to pick and choose where you put your efforts.” (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
![Gary Mccullough Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz stands for a portrait in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/c8132006864142e89facb08fa8b2ef6c/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz stands for a portrait in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Nam Y. Huh Adrian Perkins stands for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. During his 2022 reelection campaign for mayor of Shreveport, La., a video, paid for by a rival political action committee, used artificial intelligence to superimpose Perkins’ face onto the body of an actor playing him. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/8493580774814ab78bacd6ad125f7a39/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Adrian Perkins stands for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. During his 2022 reelection campaign for mayor of Shreveport, La., a video, paid for by a rival political action committee, used artificial intelligence to superimpose Perkins’ face onto the body of an actor playing him. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
![Nam Y. Huh Adrian Perkins sits for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. When Perkins was running for reelection as mayor of Shreveport, La., in 2022, a satirical TV commercial, paid for by a rival political action committee, used artificial intelligence to depict Perkins as a high school student who had been called into the principal’s office. Although the ad was labeled as being created with "deep learning computer technology," he didn’t have enough money or campaign staff to counteract it, and thinks it was one of many reasons he lost the race. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/50d51a459396408a81f433e76ae97f20/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Adrian Perkins sits for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. When Perkins was running for reelection as mayor of Shreveport, La., in 2022, a satirical TV commercial, paid for by a rival political action committee, used artificial intelligence to depict Perkins as a high school student who had been called into the principal’s office. Although the ad was labeled as being created with "deep learning computer technology," he didn’t have enough money or campaign staff to counteract it, and thinks it was one of many reasons he lost the race. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
![Gary Mccullough A campaign sign for Georgia Republican state House candidate Glenn Cook is displayed on a fence in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/18816b6ae5be4fc08581a603a39243c8/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A campaign sign for Georgia Republican state House candidate Glenn Cook is displayed on a fence in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Gary Mccullough Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz shakes hands with Brooke Rabon, left, while campaigning at a coffee shop in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/68e63af37d0d400a897e52d6de3f25ed/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz shakes hands with Brooke Rabon, left, while campaigning at a coffee shop in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Nam Y. Huh Adrian Perkins, former mayor of Shreveport, La., sits for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. An ad targeting Perkins in his 2022 reelection campaign is believed to be one of the first examples of an AI deepfake deployed in a political race in the U.S. “In politics, people are always going to push the envelope a bit to be effective,” he says. “We had no idea how significant it would be.” (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/0ded831f69b14edf89fa0b3e7db06dff/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Adrian Perkins, former mayor of Shreveport, La., sits for a portrait in his office in Chicago, Thursday, June 13, 2024. An ad targeting Perkins in his 2022 reelection campaign is believed to be one of the first examples of an AI deepfake deployed in a political race in the U.S. “In politics, people are always going to push the envelope a bit to be effective,” he says. “We had no idea how significant it would be.” (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
![Gary Mccullough A campaign sign for Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz is displayed in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/bfe81ffa04cb483081e689b2b7fb412f/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
A campaign sign for Georgia Republican state Rep. Steven Sainz is displayed in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)
![Gary Mccullough Glenn Cook, a Republican campaigning door-to-door for a seat in the Georgia state House, speaks with Skip White, right, in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)](https://mapi.associatedpress.com/v2/items/b47cb3ec6827485e9d5618b7fca8db8d/preview/preview.jpg?s=680x)
Glenn Cook, a Republican campaigning door-to-door for a seat in the Georgia state House, speaks with Skip White, right, in Kingsland, Ga., Tuesday, June 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Gary McCullough)