OpenAI Backs California AI Invoice Requiring ‘Watermarking’ of Artificial Content material

ChatGPT developer OpenAI is supporting a California invoice that may require tech firms to label AI-generated content material, which may vary from innocent memes to deepfakes geared toward spreading misinformation about political candidates.

The invoice, known as AB 3211, has to this point been overshadowed by consideration on one other California state Synthetic Intelligence (AI) invoice, SB 1047, which mandates that AI builders conduct security testing on a few of their very own fashions. 

That invoice has confronted a backlash from the tech trade, together with OpenAI, which has Microsoft as a backer.

California state lawmakers tried to introduce 65 payments concerning AI this legislative season, in line with the state’s legislative database, together with measures to make sure all algorithmic selections are confirmed unbiased and defend the mental property of deceased people from exploitation by AI firms. Most of the payments are already lifeless.

San Francisco-based OpenAI believes that for AI-generated content material, transparency and necessities round provenance resembling watermarking are essential, particularly in an election yr, in line with a letter despatched to California State Meeting member Buffy Wicks, who authored the invoice.

With nations representing a 3rd of the world’s inhabitants having polls this yr, consultants are involved concerning the position AI-generated content material will play, and it has already been distinguished in some elections, resembling in Indonesia.

“New know-how and requirements can assist individuals perceive the origin of content material they discover on-line, and keep away from confusion between human-generated and photorealistic AI-generated content material,” OpenAI Chief Technique Officer Jason Kwon wrote within the letter, which was reviewed by Reuters.

AB 3211 has already handed the state Meeting by a 62-0 vote. Earlier this month it handed the senate appropriations committee, setting it up for a vote by the complete state Senate. If it passes by the tip of the legislative session on Aug. 31, it could advance to Governor Gavin Newsom to signal or veto by Sept. 30.

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