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A08158 Summary:

BILL NOA08158
 
SAME ASSAME AS S07847
 
SPONSORFahy
 
COSPNSRArdila, Stirpe, McDonald, Lunsford, Simon
 
MLTSPNSR
 
Add §338, Gen Bus L
 
Requires that every newspaper, magazine or other publication printed or electronically published in this state, which contains the use of generative artificial intelligence or other information communication technology, shall identify that certain parts of such newspaper, magazine, or publication were composed through the use of artificial intelligence or other information communication technology.
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A08158 Actions:

BILL NOA08158
 
10/16/2023referred to consumer affairs and protection
01/03/2024referred to consumer affairs and protection
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A08158 Memo:

NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY
MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION
submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A8158
 
SPONSOR: Fahy
  TITLE OF BILL: An act to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring publications to identify when the use of artificial intelligence is present within such publication   PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL: This purpose of this bill is to require publishers of newspapers, maga- zines or other periodical publications to disclose whether any portion of such publication was created with the use of generative artificial intelligence.   SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS: Section 1. Amends the General Business Law by adding a new section 338 which defines "generative artificial intelligence" and requires disclo- sure by publishers of newspapers, publications, and other periodical publications if an article, periodical, photograph, video, or other visual image was created or published through the use of generative artificial intelligence. Section 2. Establishes an effective date of sixty days.   JUSTIFICATION: "The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate content - including articles, photographs, and videos - without significant human oversight is already upending our information ecosystem. Generative AI has been shown to produce inaccurate information, feeding the cycle of disinfor- mation, and consumers have no way of determining whether content has been composed by AI. This legislation would provide much-needed transparency in the use of generative AI in media. It requires every newspaper, magazine, or other periodically printed or electronically published media available in New York to conspicuously imprint on the top of the page or webpage when content was wholly or partially composed or authored using generative AI, or other information communication technology. Fostering transpar- ency and accountability in the use of generative AI would benefit consumers and content creators alike."   PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: New bill   FISCAL IMPLICATIONS: None.   EFFECTIVE DATE: This law shall take effect on the 60th day after it shall have become law.
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A08158 Text:



 
                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________
 
                                          8158
 
                               2023-2024 Regular Sessions
 
                   IN ASSEMBLY
 
                                    October 16, 2023
                                       ___________
 
        Introduced  by  M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
          on Consumer Affairs and Protection
 
        AN ACT to amend the general  business  law,  in  relation  to  requiring
          publications  to  identify  when the use of artificial intelligence is
          present within such publication

          The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and  Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
 
     1    Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
     2  338 to read as follows:
     3    §  338.  Generative  artificial  intelligence. 1. For purposes of this
     4  section, "generative artificial intelligence"  shall  mean  the  use  of
     5  machine  learning  technology,  software,  automation, and algorithms to
     6  perform tasks or to make rules and/or predictions based on existing data
     7  sets and instructions, including, but not limited to:
     8    (a) any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpre-
     9  dictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that  can
    10  learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets;
    11    (b)  an  artificial  system  developed  in computer software, physical
    12  hardware, or  other  context  that  solves  tasks  requiring  human-like
    13  perception,  cognition,  planning,  learning, communication, or physical
    14  action;
    15    (c) an artificial system designed  to  think  or  act  like  a  human,
    16  including cognitive architectures and neural networks;
    17    (d)  a set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed
    18  to approximate a cognitive task; or
    19    (e) an artificial system designed  to  act  rationally,  including  an
    20  intelligent  software  agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using
    21  perception,  planning,  reasoning,  learning,  communicating,   decision
    22  making, and acting.
    23    2. Every newspaper, magazine or other publication printed or electron-
    24  ically  published  in this state, which contains an article, periodical,
 
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD13443-01-3

        A. 8158                             2
 
     1  photograph, video or other visual image which was  wholly  or  partially
     2  composed  or  authored through the use of generative artificial intelli-
     3  gence or other information communication technology, shall conspicuously
     4  imprint  on the top of the page or webpage of such publication that such
     5  article,  periodical,  photograph,  video  or  other  visual  image  was
     6  composed through the use of artificial intelligence or other information
     7  communication technology.
     8    §  2.  This  act  shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
     9  have become a law.
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