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Committee hears bill to require provenance tools, disclosures for certain generative AI systems
Summary
Staff told the House Appropriations Committee that second-substitute HB 1170 would require covered generative-AI providers to offer provenance-detection tools and include latent or manifest disclosures in AI-generated images, audio and video; the Office of the Attorney General would enforce the measure under the Consumer Protection Act and estimated enforcement costs range from tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars in early years.
Staff briefed the House Appropriations Committee on second-substitute House Bill 1170, a measure aimed at increasing transparency for certain generative artificial-intelligence systems. Emily Poole, staff to the Technology, Economic Development and Veterans Committee, said the bill would require covered providers — defined in the bill by computing power and revenue thresholds — to make a provenance-detection tool available to users and to include both latent disclosures and optional manifest disclosures in AI-generated output.
"The tool must allow a user to…
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