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Committee considers AI provenance bill requiring detection tools and disclosures for large providers
Summary
House Bill 1170 would require high‑compute, high‑revenue AI providers to offer provenance detection tools and optional manifest/latent disclosures for AI‑generated or altered images, audio and video; supporters called it a consumer‑protection measure while industry groups warned of technical and enforcement challenges.
The committee received a staff briefing and public testimony on Engrossed Second Substitute House Bill 1170, a transparency and provenance bill aimed at generative AI content. Committee staff explained the bill applies to covered providers that use a high quantity of computing power to train generative models publicly accessible in Washington and that report gross revenues above $500 million annually; the bill excludes public entities and bridal nations (as noted in the briefing) and limits scope to images, video and audio.
Sponsor Clyde Shavers described the measure as targeted and narrow: he said it focuses on large AI developers and ‘‘is about…
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