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Comelec Chairman George Garcia presides over the Raffle of Party-List Groups and Organizations or Coalitions' Order in the Official Ballot for the 2025 National and Local Elections  held at the Chairman's Hall, Palacio del Gobernador, Intramuros, Manila  on October 18, 2024 Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File

Comelec Chairman George Garcia presides over the Raffle of Party-List Groups and Organizations or Coalitions' Order in the Official Ballot for the 2025 National and Local Elections  held at the Chairman's Hall, Palacio del Gobernador, Intramuros, Manila  on October 18, 2024 Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News

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Sherrie Ann Torres

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/173841325254420241018-comelec-partylist-numbering-raffle-JC-7473.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" alt="Comelec Chairman George Garcia presides over the Raffle of Party-List Groups and Organizations or Coalitions&#x27; Order in the Official Ballot for the 2025 National and Local Elections  held at the Chairman&#x27;s Hall, Palacio del Gobernador, Intramuros, Manila  on October 18, 2024 Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Comelec Chairman George Garcia presides over the Raffle of Party-List Groups and Organizations or Coalitions&#x27; Order in the Official Ballot for the 2025 National and Local Elections  held at the Chairman&#x27;s Hall, Palacio del Gobernador, Intramuros, Manila  on October 18, 2024. <em>Jonathan Cellona, ABS-CBN News/File</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman George Garcia on Monday criticized politicians who refused to change their decades-old campaign photos.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/29/comelec-eyes-ban-on-use-of-ai-deepfake-technology-for-2025-polls-1541">• Comelec chief eyes ban on use of AI, deepfakes in 2025 polls</a></div><p>&quot;Siguro naman kung ikaw ay medyo nakakatanda naman [pero ang] ipapakita mong picture diyan ay pang-college, hindi na po siguro makatotohanan iyon,” Garcia said <span style="color:rgb(65, 65, 65);letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;display:inline !important;float:none">at the sidelines of the its first Multi-party Democracy Summit-BARMM event in Manila.</span></p><p>Garcia said Comelec is looking at disqualifying candidates in the 2025 elections who will be found using artificial intelligence (AI) in their campaign materials.</p><p>The Comelec chairman insisted AI and deepfake will create chaos during elections, especially if candidates will try to destroy each other using the technology.</p><p>“Kaya patulutulungan natin na makapaglikha ang Comelec ng magandang rules and regulation patungkol sa AI. Hindi natin pinagbabawal ang lahat ng klase ng AI,&quot; he clarified.</p><div><a class="fr-green fr-strong" href="https://news.abs-cbn.com/news/2024/5/14/watchdog-urges-creation-of-ai-code-of-conduct-ahead-of-2025-elections-1119">• Watchdog urges creation of &#x27;AI code of conduct&#x27; ahead of 2025 elections</a></div><p>(Let’s help Comelec create a strong rules and regulations about AI. We are not going to ban all forms of AI.)</p><p>Garcia meanwhile registered his reservation about the proposed banning of social media use during the campaign period.</p><p>Banning such platform, he said, can already be regarded as an intrusion to one’s freedom of expression.</p><div><br/></div><div><strong>RELATED VIDEO</strong></div><div><span class="fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable" contenteditable="false" draggable="true"><iframe width="640" height="360" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sgIlxf4hJMs?&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;rel=0" frameBorder="0" allowfullscreen="" class="fr-draggable"></iframe></span><br/></div>

<p>Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman George Garcia on Monday criticized politicians who refused to change their decades-old campaign photos.</p>

Commission on Elections (Comelec) chairman George Garcia on Monday criticized politicians who refused to change their decades-old campaign photos.

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Comelec blasts politicians who refused to change 'decades-old' campaign photos

Sherrie Ann Torres,

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Published June 03, 2024 04:07 PM PHT

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Updated February 01, 2025 08:34 PM PHT

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