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Requires the owner, licensee or operator of a visual or audio generative artificial intelligence system to take steps to prohibit its users from creating unauthorized realistic depictions of public officials.
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New York's A 10652 would have added General Business Law § 390-f requiring the owner, licensee or operator of a visual or audio generative AI system accessible to New York residents to implement a reasonable method to prohibit users from creating unauthorized realistic depictions of a public officeholder or candidate within sixty days of being notified by that person. Operators would have been liable for $100 per depiction, up to $100,000 in the aggregate. Introduced July 22, 2024 and referred to Consumer Affairs and Protection; it died at the end of the 2023-2024 session.
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What it means for business
None: the bill died at the end of the 2023-2024 session.
Key provisions
- “Covered system”: any AI system accessible to New York residents whose primary function is to generate visual or auditory media; “covered person” is anyone holding public office or a candidate
- Operators had to prohibit users from creating unauthorized realistic depictions within sixty days of notice, and provide an easy-to-use method for sending notice (they could request reasonable identification)
- Operators could let a covered person or their agent generate depictions of that person, but were liable as if they had violated the section if the safeguards were not reasonable
- Liability of $100 per depiction, not more than $100,000 in the aggregate; no liability where the operator cannot prevent depictions despite a reasonable method, or for incidental or unforeseeable depictions
- Did not apply where outputs are processed by a third party with no ownership or control over the underlying generative model
- Would have taken effect one year after becoming law; referred July 22, 2024 with no further action
Latest legislative action
Jul 22, 2024. referred to consumer affairs and protection
Sponsors (showing 5 of 8)
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| HOOPER | Primary |
| Karen McMahon D | Primary |
| Rules Committee | Primary |
| Charles Lavine D | Cosponsor |
| Joe Angelino R | Cosponsor |
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