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Use of Digitally Altered Media in Elections (House Enrolled Act 1133, 2024)

Ind. Code § 3-9-8

In force since .

An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.

Criminal exposure
No
Private right of action
Yes
Obligation class
Content labelling, Disclosure
Audit expectation
none
Setting the rule reaches
Elections

What it requires

  • Include a disclaimer stating that elements of the media have been digitally altered or artificially generated, on any paid campaign communication that includes fabricated media of a candidate conveying a materially inaccurate depiction
  • Display a printed disclaimer continuously for the duration of a video communication, and read an audio disclaimer at the start, the end, and every two minutes for a communication longer than two minutes
  • A candidate depicted in noncompliant fabricated media may sue the payor, sponsor, or a disseminator who knowingly stripped the disclaimer, for actual damages, injunctive relief, and attorney's fees

These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.

In the frameworks

NIST AI RMF
  • MEASURE 2.8Risks associated with transparency and accountability – as identified in the MAP function – are examined and documented.
NIST AI 600-1
OWASP Agentic Top 10
  • ASI09Human-Agent Trust Exploitation
MIT mitigations Draft
  • 2.4Content Safety Controls
  • 4.1System Documentation
  • 4.2Risk Disclosure
  • 4.6User Rights & Recourse
FINOS AIGF
ETSI EN 304 223
  • 5.1.3-2Threats developers cannot resolve are passed to operators and on to end-users.
  • 5.3.1-1Users told where and how their data is used, accessed and stored, with developers informing operators.
  • 5.3.1-2.1That guidance covers proper use, limits and likely failure modes.

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.

Who enforces it

Enforcement body

A candidate depicted in the fabricated media, through a civil action under IC 3-9-8-6; the chapter names no public enforcer.

Settledness

As of
Open questions
  • Can media within IC 3-9-8-3(3), which depicts an artificially generated person that is not a recognizable imitation of an identifiable individual, be fabricated media depicting a candidate that triggers the disclaimer duty in IC 3-9-8-5?
  • Who is the person that sponsored the campaign communication under IC 3-9-8-6(a)(2), a term the chapter does not define, and is that person distinct from the person that paid for it under IC 3-9-8-6(a)(1)?

What it makes you log

Logging duty

This chapter requires the disclaimer on a campaign communication containing fabricated media and states the civil action available to a depicted candidate; it states no duty to log or keep a record of the media's creation or alteration.

Kind
None
As of

What this law does

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Research summary

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If a campaign communication includes fabricated media, meaning audio, video, or an image that has been altered or artificially generated to convey a materially inaccurate depiction of a candidate that a reasonable person would not recognize as altered, the person who paid for the communication must include a disclaimer stating that elements of the media have been digitally altered or artificially generated.

The disclaimer requirements vary by medium: a printed or video disclaimer must be displayed continuously, and an audio disclaimer must be read at the start, the end, and every two minutes for a communication longer than two minutes.

A candidate depicted in noncompliant fabricated media may bring a civil action against the person who paid for or sponsored the communication, and against a disseminator who knowingly, intentionally, or recklessly removed the disclaimer, for actual damages, injunctive relief, and attorney's fees, on a clear-and-convincing-evidence standard.

The enrolled act declared an emergency and took effect upon passage; the Indiana General Assembly's own bill-actions record shows the Governor signed it .

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