Bill Text: NY A10652 | 2023-2024 | General Assembly | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requires the owner, licensee or operator of a visual or audio generative artificial intelligence system to take steps to prohibit its users from creating unauthorized realistic depictions of public officials.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-07-22 - referred to consumer affairs and protection [A10652 Detail]

Download: New_York-2023-A10652-Introduced.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
        ________________________________________________________________________

                                          10652

                   IN ASSEMBLY

                                      July 22, 2024
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        Introduced  by  COMMITTEE  ON RULES -- (at request of M. of A. Vanel) --
          read once and referred  to  the  Committee  on  Consumer  Affairs  and
          Protection

        AN  ACT  to  amend the general business law, in relation to unauthorized
          depictions of public officials generated by artificial intelligence

          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  390-f to read as follows:
     3    §  390-f.  Unauthorized  depictions  of  public officials generated by
     4  artificial intelligence. 1. As used in this section, the following terms
     5  shall have the following meanings:
     6    (a) "Visual or audio generative  artificial  intelligence  system"  or
     7  "covered  system"  shall mean any artificial intelligence system that is
     8  accessible to New York residents whose primary function is  to  generate
     9  visual or auditory media.
    10    (b)  "Artificial  intelligence" shall mean a machine-based system that
    11  can, for a given set  of  human-defined  objectives,  make  predictions,
    12  recommendations,  or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.
    13  Artificial intelligence systems use machine- and human-based  inputs  to
    14  perceive  real  and virtual environments; abstract such perceptions into
    15  models through analysis in an automated manner; and use model  inference
    16  to formulate options for information or action. This definition includes
    17  but  is not limited to systems that use machine learning, large language
    18  models, natural language processing, and computer  vision  technologies,
    19  including generative artificial intelligence.
    20    (c)  "Covered person" shall mean any person holding a public office or
    21  a candidate for public office. In the context of notice, covered  person
    22  shall  include  the  covered  person's agent, employee or representative
    23  acting at the direction of the covered person.
    24    2. The owner, licensee or operator of a  visual  or  audio  generative
    25  artificial  intelligence  system  shall implement a reasonable method to
    26  prohibit its users from creating unauthorized realistic depictions of  a
    27  covered  person  within  sixty  days  of  being notified by such covered

         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
                                                                   LBD15918-02-4
        A. 10652                            2

     1  person that such covered person does not want a realistic  depiction  of
     2  themselves  to be generated by the owner, licensee or operator's system.
     3  An implemented method to prevent the unauthorized creation of  realistic
     4  depictions  of  a covered person shall be considered reasonable when the
     5  owner, licensee or operator of the  covered  system  has  implemented  a
     6  method  that,  in  relation  to  the  method  of user inputs used by the
     7  covered system,  is  consistent  with  industry  standards,  not  overly
     8  burdensome  on  the system, cost-effective to implement and maintain and
     9  is up to date.
    10    3. The owner, licensee or operator of a covered system shall implement
    11  a reasonable method for covered persons to send  notice  to  them  under
    12  this  section  provided  that such method is easy to access, understand,
    13  complete and send and that such method provides  clear  updates  to  the
    14  sender  on  the  status  of their request in a timely manner. The owner,
    15  licensee or operator of a covered system may request a reasonable  means
    16  of identification to process such requests.
    17    4. Nothing in this section shall prohibit the owner, licensee or oper-
    18  ator  of  a  covered  system  from implementing reasonable safeguards to
    19  permit the covered person, their agent, employee  or  representative  to
    20  use such covered system to generate realistic depictions of such covered
    21  person,  provided  however that such owner, licensee or operator of such
    22  covered system shall be liable  in  the  same  manner  as  if  they  had
    23  violated  subdivision  two of this section where such safeguards are not
    24  reasonable. A safeguard is considered reasonable for  purposes  of  this
    25  subdivision  where  the  owner, licensee or operator of a covered system
    26  implements measures that are consistent  with  industry  standards,  not
    27  overly  burdensome  on the system, cost-effective to implement and main-
    28  tain and are up to date.
    29    5. The owner, licensee or operator of a covered system shall be liable
    30  to a covered person in an amount of one hundred dollars  per  depiction,
    31  but  not more than one hundred thousand dollars in the aggregate, gener-
    32  ated on their system by a user other than the covered  person  or  their
    33  agent,  employee,  representative,  or  another at the direction of them
    34  created outside of the period prescribed  by  this  section  where  such
    35  owner,  licensee or operator of such covered system fails to implement a
    36  reasonable method to prevent  the  unauthorized  creation  of  realistic
    37  depictions  of  a  covered  person within the periods prescribed in this
    38  section. The owner, licensee or operator of a covered system  shall  not
    39  be  liable to a covered person where such owner, licensee or operator is
    40  unable to prevent the unauthorized depictions  of  such  covered  person
    41  after implementing a reasonable method, nor shall they be liable for any
    42  unauthorized realistic depictions that are incidental or were created in
    43  an unforeseeable way.
    44    6.  This section shall not apply to the owner, licensee or operator of
    45  a visual or audio generative artificial intelligence  system  where  the
    46  visual  or  audio  outputs  of the system are processed by a third party
    47  that has no ownership or control over the underlying generative model.
    48    § 2. This act shall take effect one year after it shall have become  a
    49  law.