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Becca Balint and Republican challenger Mark Coester circulated on Vermont social media, raising questions about artificial intelligence in elections. The video shows fabricated statements attributed to the candidates. Coester said he did not make the video or pay for it. The video was shared by Hank Poitras, a social media content creator, who said he believes it is protected by the First Amendment. The video may be the first test case of a new Vermont law requiring AI disclosure on ads and videos within 90 days of an election. The Attorney General’s Office, which enforces the AI law, said it is aware of the video and is still reviewing it. 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Becca Balint and her potential Republican challenger Mark Coester is making the rounds on Vermont social media, raising questions about artificial intelligence in elections and the limits of free speech."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The AI-generated video shows fabricated statements attributed to the candidates."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"Coester said he did not make the video or pay for it."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The video was shared by Hank Poitras, a provocative Brattleboro-based social media content creator with a controversial past."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The video may be the first test case of a new Vermont law, requiring AI disclosure on ads and videos within 90 days of an election."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Attorney General’s Office, which enforces the AI law, said it is aware of the video and is still reviewing it."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources do not name any AI model, developer, harness or tool used to make the video, so system fields are omitted. No source states that an autonomous agent was involved, so agent_involved, failure_class and related fields are omitted. No date of occurrence or disclosure is stated; the article date is not used as a disclosure date. The sources do not state a trigger, detection method, root cause or responsible party. No control is stated to have held, failed or been bypassed. Judgement: incident_class set to other because the video is a deepfake political clip that fits no narrower listed class. Judgement: severity set to moderate because the likeness of two named candidates is used with scope bounded to Vermont social media; the sources do not state a count of affected parties. Whether the video is political speech under the new law or satire is unresolved in the sources. 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