Law / United States / 
Arizona
Deepfakes; candidate disclosure requirement and civil penalty
In force since .
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Disclosure
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- Elections
What it requires
- If you are a creator, meaning you use artificial intelligence or other digital technology to generate synthetic media, other than merely providing the underlying technology, do not create and distribute a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of a candidate within ninety days before an election at which that candidate appears on the ballot, unless the media carries a clear and conspicuous disclosure that it includes content generated by artificial intelligence.
- Satire, parody, and an interactive computer service as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 230 are exempt from this disclosure duty.
- Failing to make the required disclosure exposes you to the civil penalty in A.R.S. § 16-937(B) for each day you distribute the undisclosed deepfake.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Section 16-1024 requires a creator to disclose that synthetic media of a candidate was generated with artificial intelligence, or face a civil penalty; it creates no duty to log, record, or document the creation or distribution of a deepfake beyond the disclosure itself.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Within ninety days before an election at which a candidate appears on the ballot, a creator, meaning any person who uses artificial intelligence or other digital technology to generate synthetic media, other than a provider of the underlying technology, may not create and distribute a deceptive and fraudulent deepfake of that candidate, meaning synthetic media the creator knows is false and intends to injure the candidate's reputation and that is intentionally calculated to mislead a reasonable person, unless the media carries a clear and conspicuous disclosure that it includes content generated by artificial intelligence.
Satire, parody, and an interactive computer service as defined in 47 U.S.C. § 230 are exempt. A creator who fails to make the required disclosure is liable for the civil penalty prescribed by A.R.S. § 16-937(B) for each day the undisclosed deepfake is distributed. Enacted as chapter 199 of the 2024 session laws, this section was approved by the Governor on .
Unlike its companion section 16-1023, it carries a severability clause rather than an emergency clause, so it took effect on the legislative session's general effective date rather than immediately on signature. The Arizona Legislature's own General Effective Dates page states that day, for the 2024 Second Regular Session, as .
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