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Committee hears mixed testimony on AI provenance bill requiring detection tools and disclosures (HB 1170)
Summary
The Technology, Economic Development, and Veterans Committee held a public hearing on HB 1170, which would require certain generative AI providers to offer provenance detection tools and include persistent disclosures in AI‑created content. Supporters cited risks from deepfakes; opponents raised First Amendment and technical feasibility concerns.
The Technology, Economic Development, and Veterans Committee on Jan. 30 held a public hearing on House Bill 1170, which would require certain large generative AI providers to make provenance‑detection tools available to users and to offer manifest and embedded “latent” disclosures in content created or modified by their systems. The staff briefing said the disclosures must, where technically feasible, be difficult to remove and include metadata such as the time and date the disclosure was added and the system version that produced the content.
Supporters told the committee that the bill addresses growing harms from realistic synthetic media. Jay Jessima of the Transparency Coalition said the state should act to curb disinformation and…
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