In essence, he ruled the law is simply too broad as written and could result in serious overstepping by state authorities into what speech is permitted or not.
Because this is a preliminary injunction, we’ll have to wait and see whether this California law is truly blocked for good, but either way it is unlikely to have much effect on next month’s election. AB 2839 is one of 18 new laws relating to AI that Newsom has signed in the last month.