Prohibits the publication of a digital or physical newspaper, magazine, or periodical which was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use of artificial intelligence without significant human oversight.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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9542
IN SENATE
May 16, 2024
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Introduced by Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
publication of a digital or physical newspaper, magazine, or period-
ical which was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use
of artificial intelligence without significant human oversight
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. Publishing of newspapers, magazines, and periodicals; genera-
4 tive artificial intelligence disclosure. 1. Nothing shall be published
5 within a digital or physical newspaper, magazine, or periodical which
6 was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use of artificial
7 intelligence without significant human oversight.
8 2. For the purposes of this section, "artificial intelligence" shall
9 mean the use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and
10 algorithms to perform tasks, to make rules and/or predictions based on
11 existing data sets and instructions, including, but not limited to:
12 (a) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpre-
13 dictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can
14 learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets;
15 (b) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical
16 hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like
17 perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical
18 action;
19 (c) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human,
20 including cognitive architectures and neural networks;
21 (d) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed
22 to approximate a cognitive task; and/or
23 (e) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an
24 intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using
25 perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision
26 making, and acting.
27 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
28 have become a law.
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
LBD15637-01-4
