{"id":5528,"date":"2026-08-20T01:21:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/?page_id=5528"},"modified":"2026-08-20T01:24:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T08:24:04","slug":"item-12","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/2026-08\/item-12\/","title":{"rendered":"12. Adoption of Proposed Regulation 18450.12 and Amendments to Regulation 18401, AI use in Campaign Advertisement Disclosure and Related Recordkeeping."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Staff: Zachary Norton, Senior Commission Counsel. Staff proposes for adoption amendments to Regulation 18450.12 to add language clarifying the circumstances under which disclosure is required in campaign advertisements that have been created or modified using AI, as well as amendments to Regulation 18401 to make explicit that recordkeeping requirements extend to all committee advertisements, and includes a requirement to maintain copies of any original source media used to create advertisements that have been modified using AI. Staff presented this proposal for pre-notice discussion in May and now presents it for adoption.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fppc.ca.gov\/siteassets\/documents\/agendadocuments\/general-items\/2026\/aug\/Staff_Memo_18450.12_18401_adopt.pdf\"><strong>Staff Memo<\/strong><span class=\"visually-hidden\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fppc.ca.gov\/siteassets\/documents\/agendadocuments\/general-items\/2026\/aug\/proposed_18450.12_adopt.pdf\"><strong>Proposed Adoption of Regulation 18450.12<\/strong><span class=\"visually-hidden\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fppc.ca.gov\/siteassets\/documents\/agendadocuments\/general-items\/2026\/aug\/proposed_18401_amend.pdf\"><strong>Proposed Amendment of Regulation 18401<\/strong><span class=\"visually-hidden\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fppc.ca.gov\/siteassets\/documents\/agendadocuments\/general-items\/2026\/aug\/section_84514_reg_18450.12_flow_chart.pdf\"><strong>Section 84514 &amp; Regulation 18450.12 Flow Chart<\/strong><span class=\"visually-hidden\">(PDF)<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff: Zachary Norton, Senior Commission Counsel. Staff proposes for adoption amendments to Regulation 18450.12 to add language clarifying the circumstances under which disclosure is required in campaign advertisements that have been created or modified using AI, as well as amendments to Regulation 18401 to make explicit that recordkeeping requirements extend to all committee advertisements, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":5501,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"wf_page_folders":[68],"class_list":["post-5528","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5528"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5529,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5528\/revisions\/5529"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wf_page_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediasite.fppc.ca.gov\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_page_folders?post=5528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}