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Kentucky

Limited or adjacent coverage.Trending toward more guardrails.

Effective 2025-03-24 · 24 March 2025Next review by 2026-08-06 · 6 August 2026

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Sources

apps.legislature.ky.govKentucky SB 4 — protection of information; election synthetic media provisions

Why this status

Kentucky's SB 4 (Acts Chapter 66) has been in effect since March 24, 2025 (signed with an emergency effective date). The law creates a cause of action for sponsors who use synthetic media in electioneering communications without a clear AI-disclosure. The rule is squarely about election communications — Kentucky hasn't enacted a broader rule covering deepfakes in social, school, or intimate-image contexts.

What this means

The protection is narrow but real: it covers undisclosed synthetic media in political advertising and electioneering communications, not deepfakes in social feeds, group chats, or apps your kids use.
Sponsors of communications that include AI-generated content without the required disclosure can be sued — that's the law's main mechanism.
For AI-fakes outside the election context, Kentucky hasn't addressed those uses at the state level. Federal rules and platform policies are what apply to those gaps.

What to verify next

Read Acts Chapter 66 (SB 4) on the Kentucky Legislature site for the exact definitions of "synthetic media" and the scope of "electioneering communications."
If you're concerned about a non-election use of an AI fake — in a school chat, an app, a private message — Kentucky's SB 4 isn't the relevant rule. Check federal protections and the platform's own policy instead.

How this was scored →

Public-source posture estimateNot legal adviceMap regenerated2026-05-08 · 8 May 2026