STARTING with the 2025 midterm polls, the Commission on Elections (Comelc) will require all candidates to submit the photos they will use in the campaign in relation to its move to ban the use of certain forms of artificial intelligence (AI) during the campaign period.

Chairman George Erwin Garcia said over the weekend that he submitted his proposal to the Commission en banc and, at the same time, referred the AI and deepfake issue to the Committee on Digital Transformation and Kontra Fake News.

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