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Assembly approves disclosure requirement for AI model training data after hours of testimony from creators and tech groups
Summary
AB 412 would let copyright holders request whether a generative AI model was trained on their works; creators backed the idea as a minimal transparency right, while tech and industry groups warned of trade-secret and preemption issues.
The Assembly Judiciary Committee on Tuesday approved AB 412, a bill that would give creators a right to ask developers whether a generative AI model was trained on specific copyrighted works.
Sponsor Assemblymember Laura Bauer-Kahan said the bill does not change federal copyright law but provides a narrowly targeted transparency right so that creators — from voice actors to visual artists and musicians — can learn whether their work was used to train a model. “How does someone who owns a copyright ... exercise their rights in today's world where there are models that are being…
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