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Enacts the "New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act"; requires developers of generative artificial intelligence systems or services to post certain information on the developer's website regarding video, audio, text and data from a covered publication used to train the…
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New York's A 8595-B, the "New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act," would add General Business Law §§ 338 to 338-D. By January 1, 2027, generative AI developers serving New Yorkers would have to post the URLs crawled, a description of covered-publication content used, whether copyright notices were removed and the collection timeframe, and disclose crawler details. A journalism provider could sue for compliance and statutory damages of up to $10,000 per violation. Would take effect immediately. Amended June 9, 2025 and referred to Codes (again January 7, 2026); it has not passed either chamber.
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What it means for business
None yet: the bill is pending. If enacted, generative AI developers would have to post training-data and crawler information by January 1, 2027 and could be sued by journalism providers for up to $10,000 per violation.
Key provisions
- Developers of generative AI systems or services made available to New Yorkers must post on their website, on or before January 1, 2027 and before each later release, the URLs or URIs accessed by crawlers, a description of covered-publication content used "sufficient to identify individual works," whether source identifiers or copyright notices were removed, and the timeframe of data collection
- Posting is not required where an express written agreement authorizes access and the parties agree not to post the information
- A developer deploying a crawler must disclose its name, IP address and identifier, the responsible legal entity, its purposes, entities receiving scraped data, and a point of contact, in a manner clearly accessible to website operators, by January 1, 2027
- A website operator's exclusion of a crawler "shall not negatively impact the findability" of its content in a search engine
- Enforcement (§ 338-B): a journalism provider may sue in Supreme Court for compliance and statutory damages of "up to ten thousand dollars for each violation"; the court may order disclosure of records identifying training text and data
- Does not alter rights under Title 17 of the U.S. Code or the Lanham Act (§ 338-C); severability clause (§ 338-D)
- Would take effect immediately; amended to B on June 9, 2025; referred to Codes, with no further action
Latest legislative action
Jan 7, 2026. referred to codes
Sponsors (showing 5 of 10)
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| DICKENS | Primary |
| Kenneth Zebrowski | Primary |
| RA | Primary |
| THIELE | Primary |
| D'URSO | Cosponsor |
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