Public Law 116-258 · S. 2904 · Became law

IOGAN Act

Official title: “To direct the Director of the National Science Foundation to support research on the outputs that may be generated by generative adversarial networks, otherwise known as deepfakes, and other comparable techniques that may be developed in the future, and for other purposes.”

House: without objection · Senate: without objection
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