Except it’s not. The wording is:
A person may not, with the intent to influence an election, knowingly cause to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder’s or candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality.
It later goes on to mention generative AI. But the bill isn’t primarily focused on AI. The above leaves room for things like color correction in photographs, but would bar things like the following images:
“Just give the bully your lunch money, and they’ll stop asking for it in the future. It definitely won’t result in them coming back tomorrow to shake you down again.”