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House Judiciary Committee approves bill extending likeness protections to AI-generated images and voice
Summary
The House Judiciary Committee passed House Bill 1071, which adds language to existing law to bar commercial use of a person’s image or artificially generated voice created by generative AI, sponsor Rep. Scott Richardson said. The committee recorded no public testimony and conducted a voice vote recorded as "the ayes have it."
The House Judiciary Committee voted to pass House Bill 1071 on Thursday after a brief presentation from the bill’s sponsor, Representative Scott Richardson.
The bill would add language to existing law to cover images and artificially generated voice created through generative artificial intelligence when used to promote a product or service, Richardson told the committee. "It is just, if you will, language cleanup or addition for changing times," Richardson said while presenting the measure.
Generative AI "has opened up a world of possibilities," Richardson said, including the ability to take an individual's likeness and produce videos or images showing them doing things they had not done in reality. He said the bill leverages the Frank Broyles Act (2016) by adding protections that would prohibit using or altering a person's image or an artificially generated voice for advertising without authorization. Richardson noted the bill adds the new language around line 30 on page 1 and includes a provision addressing artificially generated voice later in the text.
Representative Hudson asked whether "artificial intelligence" is defined anywhere in the code. Richardson said the bill defines likeness as a reproduction and extends that concept to cover creations produced by artificial means; he said he was not aware of a statutory definition of "artificial intelligence" in the bill and "didn't think it necessarily from a contextual perspective is necessary in this bill because we're associating it with just changing through an artificial means."
No members of the public signed up to speak for or against the bill. After closing remarks from Richardson, he moved that the bill "do pass." The committee conducted a voice vote; the chair announced, "The ayes have it." The transcript does not record a roll-call tally.
Committee housekeeping: the chair said House Bill 1067 will be moved to next Thursday and that the committee will hold a special order for House Bill 1204 on the coming Tuesday. The chair also said the chief justice plans to attend the committee on the thirtieth.
With the committee vote, House Bill 1071 advances from the committee; the transcript does not record subsequent steps or a scheduled floor date.
