Requires that every newspaper, magazine or other publication printed or electronically published in this state, which contains the use of generative artificial intelligence or other information communication technology, shall identify that certain parts of such newspaper, magazine, or publication were composed through the use of artificial intelligence or other information communication technology.
NEW YORK STATE ASSEMBLY MEMORANDUM IN SUPPORT OF LEGISLATION submitted in accordance with Assembly Rule III, Sec 1(f)
 
BILL NUMBER: A8158
SPONSOR: Fahy
 
TITLE OF BILL:
An act to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
publications to identify when the use of artificial intelligence is
present within such publication
 
PURPOSE OR GENERAL IDEA OF BILL:
This purpose of this bill is to require publishers of newspapers, maga-
zines or other periodical publications to disclose whether any portion
of such publication was created with the use of generative artificial
intelligence.
 
SUMMARY OF SPECIFIC PROVISIONS:
Section 1. Amends the General Business Law by adding a new section 338
which defines "generative artificial intelligence" and requires disclo-
sure by publishers of newspapers, publications, and other periodical
publications if an article, periodical, photograph, video, or other
visual image was created or published through the use of generative
artificial intelligence.
Section 2. Establishes an effective date of sixty days.
 
JUSTIFICATION:
"The use of artificial intelligence (AI) to generate content - including
articles, photographs, and videos - without significant human oversight
is already upending our information ecosystem. Generative AI has been
shown to produce inaccurate information, feeding the cycle of disinfor-
mation, and consumers have no way of determining whether content has
been composed by AI.
This legislation would provide much-needed transparency in the use of
generative AI in media. It requires every newspaper, magazine, or other
periodically printed or electronically published media available in New
York to conspicuously imprint on the top of the page or webpage when
content was wholly or partially composed or authored using generative
AI, or other information communication technology. Fostering transpar-
ency and accountability in the use of generative AI would benefit
consumers and content creators alike."
 
PRIOR LEGISLATIVE HISTORY:
New bill
 
FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
None.
 
EFFECTIVE DATE:
This law shall take effect on the 60th day after it shall have become
law.
STATE OF NEW YORK
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8158
2023-2024 Regular Sessions
IN ASSEMBLY
October 16, 2023
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Introduced by M. of A. FAHY -- read once and referred to the Committee
on Consumer Affairs and Protection
AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to requiring
publications to identify when the use of artificial intelligence is
present within such publication
The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-bly, do enact as follows:
1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new section
2 338 to read as follows:
3 § 338. Generative artificial intelligence. 1. For purposes of this
4 section, "generative artificial intelligence" shall mean the use of
5 machine learning technology, software, automation, and algorithms to
6 perform tasks or to make rules and/or predictions based on existing data
7 sets and instructions, including, but not limited to:
8 (a) any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpre-
9 dictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can
10 learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets;
11 (b) an artificial system developed in computer software, physical
12 hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like
13 perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical
14 action;
15 (c) an artificial system designed to think or act like a human,
16 including cognitive architectures and neural networks;
17 (d) a set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed
18 to approximate a cognitive task; or
19 (e) an artificial system designed to act rationally, including an
20 intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using
21 perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision
22 making, and acting.
23 2. Every newspaper, magazine or other publication printed or electron-
24 ically published in this state, which contains an article, periodical,
EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
[] is old law to be omitted.
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1 photograph, video or other visual image which was wholly or partially
2 composed or authored through the use of generative artificial intelli-
3 gence or other information communication technology, shall conspicuously
4 imprint on the top of the page or webpage of such publication that such
5 article, periodical, photograph, video or other visual image was
6 composed through the use of artificial intelligence or other information
7 communication technology.
8 § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall
9 have become a law.