A year after consumer advocate Public Citizen filed a petition with the FEC to demand rulemaking that would prohibit a political candidate or advocacy group from misrepresenting political opponents using deliberately deceptive deepfakes—fake images generated with AI—FEC Chair Sean Cooksey told Axios the commission will not propose any new rules this year.

Cooksey, a Republican, said he plans to close the pending petition on Thursday without taking any action, telling Axios that rulemaking to limit or prohibit AI in campaign ads would “overstep the commission’s limited legal authority to regulate political advertisements.”

“The better approach is for the FEC to wait for direction from Congress and to study how AI is actually used on the ground before considering any new rules,” said Cooksey.

In other words, said Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen, the FEC will “wait for deceptive fraud to occur and study its consequences before acting to prevent the fraud.”