Three US senators have introduced legislation aimed at curbing the rise and use of artificial intelligence-generated content and deep fakes while protecting the jobs of artists, songwriters and journalists.
Original Protection and Integrity of Content from Edited and Deepfaked Media (COPYING) Act It was presented to the Senate on Friday morning. The bill is a bipartisan effort co-sponsored by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (DN.M.). press alert Issued by the Blackburn office.
The COPYRIGHT ACT, if enacted, would establish transparency standards through the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), the press release said, to set guidelines for “content origination information, watermarking and detection of synthetic content.”
The bill would also prohibit the unauthorized use of creative or journalistic content to teach AI models or generated AI content. The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general will also have the authority to enforce these guidelines, and those whose legally created content has been used by AI to create new content without their consent or proper compensation will also have to hold those companies or entities to account. court.
The bill would even expand the ban on changing or removing content-origin data by internet platforms, search engines and social media companies.
Numerous content and journalism advocacy groups are already voicing their support for the COPYRIGHT Act becoming law. These include SAG-AFTRA, the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Songwriters Guild of America, and the National Newspaper Association.
This is not the first attempt by the Senate to create guidelines and laws for the increased use of AI content, and it certainly will not be the last. In April, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced a bill called Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act this would force AI companies to list copyrighted sources in their datasets. The bill has not moved out of the House Judiciary Committee since it was introduced Senate records.
