Bill Text: IL HB4711 | 2025-2026 | 104th General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Creates the Provenance Data Requirements Act. Provides that a generative artificial intelligence tool provider shall apply provenance data, either directly or through the use of third-party technology, to wholly-generated synthetic content generated by the provider's generative artificial intelligence tool. Sets forth additional requirements on generative artificial intelligence tool providers, large online platforms, and manufacturers of capture devices. Defines terms.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2026-03-27 - Rule 19(a) / Re-referred to Rules Committee [HB4711 Detail]

Download: Illinois-2025-HB4711-Introduced.html

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104TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY State of Illinois 2025 and 2026HB4711 Introduced , by Rep. Sue Scherer SYNOPSIS AS INTRODUCED:
New Act
Creates the Provenance Data Requirements Act. Provides that a generative artificial intelligence tool provider shall apply provenance data, either directly or through the use of third-party technology, to wholly-generated synthetic content generated by the provider's generative artificial intelligence tool. Sets forth additional requirements on generative artificial intelligence tool providers, large online platforms, and manufacturers of capture devices. Defines terms.
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A BILL FOR
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AN ACT concerning business.
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
represented in the General Assembly:
Section 1. Short title. This Act may be cited as the
Provenance Data Requirements Act.
Section 5. Definitions. As used in this Act:
"Artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system
that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the
input it receives, how to generate outputs, such as
predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can
influence physical or virtual environments. For the purposes
of this definition a system that uses "artificial
intelligence" may vary in its level of autonomy and
adaptations after deployment.
"Capture device" means a device that can record
photographs, audio, or video content, including, but not
limited to, video and still photography cameras, mobile phones
with built-in cameras or microphones, and voice recorders.
"Content" means any visual or audio digital content.
"Generative artificial intelligence model" means an
artificial intelligence model designed to generate new data or
content based on the patterns or structures from its training
data.

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"Generative artificial intelligence model" does not
include nongenerative capabilities like classification,
predictions, or labeling.
"Generative artificial intelligence tool provider" means
an entity that develops a generative artificial intelligence
tool that is made publicly available for use by people in this
State.
"Generative artificial intelligence tool" means a product
or feature that provides the outputs from a generative
artificial intelligence model to end users.
"Large online platform" means a public-facing social media
platform, content-sharing platform, messaging platform,
advertising network, or standalone search engine that
distributes content to users who did not create or collaborate
in creating the content. For the purposes of this definition,
a "large online platform" shall have 1,000,000 or more unique
monthly users during the preceding 12-month period.
"Provenance application tool" means a tool or online
service that makes provenance data difficult to remove and
allows users to easily apply provenance data.
"Provenance data" means information, such as the origin of
a piece of content and the history of modifications to the
content, that is in a format that is compliant with
widely-adopted guidelines or specifications promulgated by an
established standards-setting body, and includes, but is not
limited to:

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(1) whether some or all of the content is synthetic
content; and
(2) when there is synthetic content, the name of the
generative artificial provider whose generative artificial
tool generated the synthetic content.
"Provenance reader" means a tool or service that allows
users to view provenance data and its integrity.
"Synthetic content" means visual or audio content that has
been produced or modified by a generative artificial tool.
Section 10. Operative provisions for generative artificial
intelligence tools.
(a) A generative artificial intelligence tool provider
shall apply provenance data, either directly or through the
use of third-party technology, to wholly-generated synthetic
content generated by the provider's generative artificial
intelligence tool.
(b) A generative artificial intelligence tool provider
shall make available a provenance application tool that
enables the user to apply provenance data, either directly or
through the use of third-party technology, to content that has
been significantly modified to include synthetic content.
(c) A generative artificial intelligence tool provider
shall make a provenance reader available to the public.
Section 15. Operative provisions for large online

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platforms. A large online platform shall:
(1) retain any available provenance data in content
provided to or posted on the large online platform; and
(2) make available to a consumer of content in this
State either (i) the provenance data or a conspicuous
indicator that provenance data is available.
Section 20. Operative provisions for capture devices. A
manufacturer of a capture device shall include the ability for
a user to enable the inclusion of provenance data in the user's
captured content.