By Anna Tong
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – ChatGPT developer OpenAI is supporting a California invoice that may require tech firms to label AI-generated content material, which might vary from innocent memes to deepfakes geared toward spreading misinformation about political candidates.
The invoice, referred to 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 (NASDAQ:) as a backer.
California state lawmakers tried to introduce 65 payments pertaining to 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 shield the mental property of deceased people from exploitation by AI firms. Lots of the payments are already lifeless.
San Francisco-based OpenAI believes that for AI-generated content material, transparency and necessities round provenance comparable to watermarking are vital, particularly in an election 12 months, 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 12 months, consultants are involved concerning the function AI-generated content material will play, and it has already been distinguished in some elections, comparable to in Indonesia.
“New technology and standards can help people understand the origin of content they find online, and avoid confusion between human-generated and photorealistic AI-generated content,” 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 total state Senate. If it passes by the tip of the legislative session on Aug. 31, it will advance to Governor Gavin Newsom to signal or veto by Sept. 30.
