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Arizona
Deepfakes; candidate disclosure requirement and civil penalty
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In force.
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
As of 6 September 2026.
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.
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
- 21 September 2026
Who checks it
Audit expectation
none
What this law does
Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.
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 May 29, 2024.
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 under the Arizona Constitution rather than immediately on signature; that specific day is not confirmed against a primary source here, though the section has been in force well before the date shown regardless of which 2024 general effective date applies.
When LexLint raises it
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Read the law
official Arizona Revised Statutes text, Arizona State Legislature website
enactment date confirmed against the official session law chapter text
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