Indiana 2024 House Bill 1133

Adds Chapter 8 to Indiana Code, regulating election campaign communications with digitally altered media. Requires disclaimers for such media, specifying format and timing. Allows candidates depicted in undisclosed fabricated media to sue for damages, injunctive relief, and legal costs.

  • Authority: Indiana
  • Parent authority: State governments
  • Jurisdiction: United States
  • Collections: U.S. state and local documents
  • Most recent activity: Enacted
  • Most recent activity date: 2024-03-12

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

  • False or misleading information
  • Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
  • Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
  • Lack of transparency or interpretability

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

  • Pollution of information ecosystem
  • AI possessing dangerous capabilities

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 4-5 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors using AI for disinformation and fraud (4.1, 4.3), misinformation risks (3.1, 3.2), and AI system capabilities that enable deception (7.2). Coverage is concentrated in misinformation, malicious use, and AI-enabled manipulation domains.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

  • Information
  • Public Administration (excl. National Security)

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document primarily governs the Information sector (media production and distribution) and Public Administration excluding National Security (election processes and political campaigns). It regulates how AI-generated content is used in political communications across various media formats.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state statute enacted by the Indiana General Assembly with mandatory disclosure requirements, civil enforcement mechanisms including damages and injunctive relief, and legal obligations on specified parties.

Actors

Proposer

  • Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
  • Entities: Indiana General Assembly
  • Summary: The document is a state legislative act enacted by the Indiana General Assembly, which is the state legislative body with authority to create binding state law.

Target

  • Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer
  • Summary: The law targets persons who pay for, sponsor, or disseminate campaign communications containing fabricated media. These would include political campaigns, advocacy groups, media companies, and technology platforms that create or distribute AI-generated election content.

Enforcer

  • Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, Affected_Stakeholder
  • Summary: Enforcement is conducted through civil courts via private rights of action. Candidates depicted in undisclosed fabricated media serve as enforcers by bringing civil actions. Courts have authority to award damages, injunctive relief, and expedite hearings.

Monitor

  • Entity Types: Affected_Stakeholder
  • Summary: The law does not establish a formal monitoring body. Monitoring is implicit through the affected candidates themselves who must identify violations and initiate civil actions. There is no designated regulatory agency for oversight.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

  • Deploy
  • Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, focusing on disclosure requirements when AI-generated content is deployed in campaign communications and ongoing monitoring through civil enforcement mechanisms. It does not address earlier stages like planning, data collection, or model development.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

  • Generative AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly addresses AI-generated media through its definition of 'fabricated media' which includes artificially generated audio and visual content. It focuses on generative AI capabilities that can create synthetic media depicting individuals. No specific compute thresholds, foundation models, or distinctions between general purpose and task-specific AI are mentioned.

https://iga.in.gov/legislative/2024/bills/house/1133/details
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