Introduction
Since 2020, more than a hundred initiatives have been presented in the Mexican Congress to regulate the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across various sectors, but none have made progress.
Proposed Regulations
Legislators from all six represented parties have proposed 110 initiatives for regulating AI in areas such as health, security, education, and election-related matters.
Diputado Santiago González Soto (PT):
He aims to reform the Federal Law of Cinematography, the Federal Copyright Law, and the Federal Labor Law to establish protective measures for Mexican dubbing artists facing AI or emerging technologies in dubbing processes.
The proposed reform requires film producers, regardless of format or medium, to prove compliance with existing labor, copyright, and artists’ rights laws, including ethical AI usage in audiovisual content production. This ensures job protection and informed consent from involved artists; otherwise, penalties will apply.
Diputada Delhi Miroslava Domínguez (Morena):
She presented an initiative to impose sanctions for violating personal privacy, particularly related to the unauthorized diffusion, acquisition, or misuse of intimate sexual images or videos created using AI.
Diputado Armando Corona Arvizu (Morena):
He proposed sanctions, up to four years in prison, for misusing AI-based generative tools to create content such as texts, images, audio, video, or software codes.
Diputado Raymundo Atanacio Luna (Morena):
He suggested regulating AI in political campaigns and determining that misusing AI during campaigns or pre-campaigns to spread false information, disinformation, impersonation, or other illicit activities would constitute party politics infractions.
Vicecoordinadora Gabriela Jiménez (Morena):
She proposed the Federal Law for the Ethical, Sovereign, and Inclusive Development of AI to standardize AI usage and establish a general regulatory framework ensuring an ethical approach.
Discarded Proposals
In 2023, Diputado Justino Arriaga Rojas (PAN) proposed creating an AI and Cybersecurity Commission in the Chamber of Deputies, while Diputado Ignacio Loyola Vera (PAN) suggested regulating ethical AI and robotics. Both were discarded.
Diputada Sayonara Vargas Rodríguez (PRI) presented a Federal Criminal Code reform to determine that violating sexual intimacy would involve recording, audio-recording, photographing, printing, or creating real or AI-generated intimate sexual content without consent. This proposal was also discarded.
INE Investigates AI Usage in Voice Fabrication Controversy
Guadalupe Taddei, INE’s presiding councilor, stated that the INE is investigating internally how an AI-generated voice was created for a promotional video criticized by dubbing artists.
During a press conference, Taddei defended that the INE did not intentionally recreate a specific voice or resemble any particular individual when using AI tools.
“Let me clarify that the INE did not use a predetermined voice, like José Lavat’s, nor did we seek to imitate a man or specific voice. The AI tool was used freely without targeting any particular person or voice,” she asserted.
Recently, the Mexican Electoral Institute published a video on social media featuring AI-generated voice content of a dubbing actor, sparking controversy.
Last week, dubbing associations protested for AI regulation.
