Illinois General Assembly - Bill Status for HB4869

Amends the Consumer Fraud and Deceptive Business Practices Act. Provides that any person who, for any commercial purpose, makes, publishes, disseminates, airs, circulates, or places an advertisement for goods or services before the public or causes, directly or indirectly, an advertisement for goods or services to be made, published, disseminated, aired, circulated, or placed before the public, that the person knows or should have known contains synthetic media, shall disclose in the advertisement that the advertisement contains synthetic media. Provides that if synthetic media has been used in any advertisement for goods or services that is published, aired, circulated, disseminated, or otherwise placed before the public and that depicts a person engaged in any action or expression that the person did not actually engage, the advertisement shall include a disclaimer that clearly and conspicuously states the likeness featured in the advertisement is synthetic, does not depict an actual person, and is generated to create a human likeness. Provides that a violation of the provisions constitutes an unlawful practice within the meaning of the Act.

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