Campaign · Election 2026 · Aotearoa NZ
Can you
trust
what you see
this election?
AI can now fake convincing audio and video of any candidate in minutes. New Zealand's electoral law was not written for this. The window to fix it closes when the campaign starts.
01 / The stakes
Three things our laws don't account for.
Seeing isn't believing
A clip indistinguishable from real footage of any candidate can be produced in minutes, for free, on a laptop. Detection lags creation by months.
No disclosure rule
There is no specific New Zealand law requiring AI-generated political media to be labelled. The Electoral Act predates the technology.
No detection capacity
The Electoral Commission has no resourced AI threat-response function. By the time a deepfake is debunked, the damage is done.
02 / What we're asking for
Three changes - concrete, achievable, before the writ.
Mandatory disclosure of synthetic political media
Require any political advertisement, communication, or campaign material that uses AI-generated or AI-altered audio, video, or imagery of a real person to be clearly labelled as such. Voters deserve to know when what they're seeing isn't real.
Platform accountability for amplification
Hold large social media platforms accountable for algorithmically amplifying undisclosed AI-generated political content during the regulated election period. Platforms have the ability to slow the spread of synthetic media, they should be required to use it.
Resource the Electoral Commission for an AI-era election
Provide the Electoral Commission with the funding and technical capacity to monitor for AI-driven interference, work with platforms during incidents, and communicate quickly with the public when synthetic media is detected.
03 / Take action
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