Three US senators have introduced a bill that seeks to curb the rise and use of ai-generated content and deepfakes by protecting the work of artists, composers and journalists.
Protection and Integrity of Original Content of Edited and Counterfeit Media (COPIED) Act The bill was introduced to the Senate on Friday morning. It is a bipartisan effort authorized by Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-Minn.), according to ai-deepfakes-put-journalists-artists-songwriters-back-in-control-of-their-content” rel=”nofollow noopener” target=”_blank” data-ylk=”slk:a press alert;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas” class=”link “>a press alert issued by the Blackburn office.
If enacted, the COPIED ACT would create transparency standards through the National Institutes of Standards and technology (NIST) to establish guidelines for “content provenance information, watermarking, and synthetic content detection,” according to the press release.
The bill would also prohibit unauthorized use of creative or journalistic content to train ai models or ai-created content. The Federal Trade Commission and state attorneys general would also gain the authority to enforce these guidelines, and individuals whose legally ai-created content was used to create new content without their consent or proper compensation would also have the right to take those companies or entities to court.
The bill would even expand the ban on internet platforms, search engines and social media companies manipulating or removing information about the origin of content.
A number of journalism and content advocacy groups are already voicing their support for passage of the COPIED Act. These include groups such as SAG-AFTRA, the Recording Industry Association of America, the National Association of Broadcasters, the Songwriters Guild of America and the National Newspaper Association.
This isn't the Senate's first attempt at creating guidelines and laws for the growing use of ai content, and it certainly won't be the last. In April, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) introduced a bill called the Generative ai Copyright Disclosure Act that would require ai companies to include their copyrighted sources in their data sets. The bill hasn't made it out of the House Judiciary Committee since its introduction, according to the House Judiciary Committee. Minutes of the Senate.
