Bill Text: NY S09542 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Prohibits the publication of a digital or physical newspaper, magazine, or periodical which was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use of artificial intelligence without significant human oversight.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION [S09542 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-S09542-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                          9542

                    IN SENATE

                                      May 16, 2024
                                       ___________

        Introduced  by  Sen. SKOUFIS -- read twice and ordered printed, and when
          printed to be committed to the Committee on Consumer Protection

        AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to prohibiting the
          publication of a digital or physical newspaper, magazine,  or  period-
          ical  which was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use
          of artificial intelligence without significant human oversight

          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.  Publishing of newspapers, magazines, and periodicals; genera-
     4  tive artificial intelligence disclosure. 1. Nothing shall  be  published
     5  within  a  digital  or physical newspaper, magazine, or periodical which
     6  was wholly or partially produced or edited through the use of artificial
     7  intelligence without significant human oversight.
     8    2. For the purposes of this section, "artificial  intelligence"  shall
     9  mean  the  use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and
    10  algorithms to perform tasks, to make rules and/or predictions  based  on
    11  existing data sets and instructions, including, but not limited to:
    12    (a) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpre-
    13  dictable  circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can
    14  learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets;
    15    (b) An artificial system  developed  in  computer  software,  physical
    16  hardware,  or  other  context  that  solves  tasks  requiring human-like
    17  perception, cognition, planning, learning,  communication,  or  physical
    18  action;
    19    (c)  An  artificial  system  designed  to  think  or act like a human,
    20  including cognitive architectures and neural networks;
    21    (d) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is  designed
    22  to approximate a cognitive task; and/or
    23    (e)  An  artificial  system  designed  to act rationally, including an
    24  intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves  goals  using
    25  perception,   planning,  reasoning,  learning,  communicating,  decision
    26  making, and acting.
    27    § 2. This act shall take effect on the sixtieth  day  after  it  shall
    28  have become a law.

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15637-01-4