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Senate Judiciary Committee hears sponsors on bill to criminalize simulated obscene AI material, require embedded watermarks
Summary
Sponsors told the Senate Judiciary Committee that Senate Bill 163 would criminalize simulated obscene material involving minors or impaired persons, ban certain uses of replicated personas, and require AI systems to include an embedded watermark to aid enforcement.
The Senate Judiciary Committee held a first hearing on Senate Bill 163, with sponsors Senator Blessing and Senator Johnson testifying that the bill would criminalize simulated obscene material and require AI systems to include a distinctive, embedded watermark to identify AI-generated content.
Senator Blessing, sponsor of SB163, said the bill “seeks to prevent potentially harmful uses of artificial intelligence technology, commonly known as AI.” He told the committee the legislation aims to “protect the safety and privacy of all Ohioans, especially our children, from misuse of this new technology.”
The bill addresses a prosecution gap the sponsors described: current Ohio law criminalizes child sexual abuse material that depicts a real child, but…
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