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Assembly committee advances bill giving creators a right to learn whether their work trained AI models
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Assemblymember Bauer‑Kahan’s measure to give copyright holders a way to learn whether their works were used to train generative AI models won committee approval and was sent to the Judiciary Committee after the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee voted to pass the bill as amended.
Assemblymember Bauer-Kahan’s measure to give copyright holders a way to learn whether their works were used to train generative AI models won committee approval and was sent to the Judiciary Committee after the Assembly Privacy and Consumer Protection Committee voted to pass the bill as amended.
Supporters said AB 412 does not change federal copyright rules but gives creators notice when their registered copyrighted works appear in training datasets. "Everything generated by AI originates from a human creative source," Jolie Fisher, secretary-treasurer of SAG-AFTRA, told the committee, saying creators deserve knowledge about how their work is used.
The bill would create a process for copyright owners to submit a fingerprint — a…
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