{"id":318720,"date":"2026-08-11T16:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318720\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T16:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T16:04:12","slug":"state-democrats-file-complaint-over-blakemans-ai-ads-accuse-county-exec-of-flouting-election-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/318720\/","title":{"rendered":"State Democrats File Complaint Over Blakeman&#8217;s AI Ads, Accuse County Exec Of Flouting Election Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a complaint filed Monday with the State Board of Elections, Aug. 10, State Democratic Committee Chair Jay Jacobs claimed that Blakeman\u2019s campaign had violated a 2026 New York election law by using artificial intelligence in its campaign ads without disclosing that AI had been used. The state election law, Jacobs wrote, requires that, &#8220;any political communication\u2014whether printed, digital, video, or audio\u2014that contains &#8216;materially deceptive media&#8217; must include a statement that the image, video, or audio &#8216;has been manipulated.'&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Blakeman for New York committee has repeatedly disregarded that requirement,\u201d Jacobs wrote to the State Board of Elections Monday. \u201cThe Blakeman campaign has been proud to convert taxpayer dollars into campaign funds and then use those public matching funds to support campaign activities that violate the Election Law.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a complaint filed Monday with the State Board of Elections, Aug. 10, State Democratic Committee Chair Jay&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":318721,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-318720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/318721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}