Requires the owner, licensee or operator of a generative artificial intelligence system to conspicuously display a notice on the system's user interface that is reasonably calculated to consistently apprise the user that the outputs of the generative artificial intelligence system may be inaccurate.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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934--A
Cal. No. 297
2025-2026 Regular Sessions
IN SENATE(Prefiled)
January 8, 2025
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Introduced by Sens. GONZALEZ, MAY, WEBB -- read twice and ordered print-
ed, and when printed to be committed to the Committee on Internet and
Technology -- reported favorably from said committee, ordered to first
and second report, ordered to a third reading, passed by Senate and
delivered to the Assembly, recalled, vote reconsidered, restored to
third reading, amended and ordered reprinted, retaining its place in
the order of third reading
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
notices on generative artificial intelligence systems
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
2 399-zzzzzz to read as follows:
3 § 399-zzzzzz. Notices on generative artificial intelligence systems.
4 1. As used in this section the following terms shall have the following
5 meanings:
6 (a) "Generative artificial intelligence system" shall mean a class of
7 artificial intelligence models that are self-supervised and emulate the
8 structure and characteristics of input data to generate derived synthet-
9 ic content, including, but not limited to, images, videos, audio, text
10 and other digital content.
11 (b) "Artificial intelligence" shall mean a machine-based system that
12 can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions,
13 recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments,
14 and that uses machine- and human-based inputs to perceive real and
15 virtual environments, abstract such perceptions into models through
16 analysis in an automated manner, and use model inference to formulate
17 options for information or action. This definition includes but is not
18 limited to systems that use machine learning, large language model,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD01087-06-5
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1 natural language processing, and computer vision technologies, including
2 generative AI.
3 2. The owner, licensee or operator of a generative artificial intelli-
4 gence system shall clearly and conspicuously display a notice on the
5 system's user interface that the outputs of the generative artificial
6 intelligence system may be inaccurate.
7 3. Where such owner, licensee or operator of a generative artificial
8 intelligence system fails to provide the notice required in subdivision
9 two of this section, such owner, licensee or operator shall be assessed
10 a civil penalty up to one thousand dollars for each violation. Each user
11 the owner, licensee or operator fails to provide a notice to shall
12 constitute a separate violation for each instance.
13 § 2. This act shall take effect on the ninetieth day after it shall
14 have become a law.
