AI-generated content is flooding political campaigns. California lawmakers are trying to regulate it

A political ad released last month depicts Gov. Gavin Newsom operating a robotic Democratic Party machine that chooses former Health Secretary Xavier Becerra as the next governor. Newsom explains to his would-be successor that the machine was “created to make sure that nothing ever changes” — as long as Becerra “submit(s) to the machine,” he doesn’t have to do anything. Becerra grins, telling ...