Amended IN Assembly March 19, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1791Introduced by Assembly Member WeberJanuary 04, 2024An act to add Chapter 11.1 (commencing with Section 21760) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to artificial intelligence. social media platforms.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1791, as amended, Weber. Artificial intelligence: technical open standards and content credentials. Digital content provenance.Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, existing law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. the legal implications associated with the use of digital content forgery technologies, deepfakes, and technologies allowing public verification of digital content provenance.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would require California-based companies that are in the business of generative artificial intelligence to implement the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticitys technical open standard and content credentials into their tools and platforms. prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from removing digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO Bill TextThe people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Chapter 11.1 (commencing with Section 21760) is added to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read: CHAPTER 11.1. Digital Content Provenance21760. As used in this chapter:(a) Digital content provenance means the verifiable chronology of the original piece of digital content.(b) Social media platform has the same meaning as defined in Section 22589.21761. A social media platform shall not remove digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would require California-based companies that are in the business of generative artificial intelligence to implement the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticitys (C2PA) technical open standard and content credentials into their tools and platforms.
Amended IN Assembly March 19, 2024 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 1791Introduced by Assembly Member WeberJanuary 04, 2024An act to add Chapter 11.1 (commencing with Section 21760) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to artificial intelligence. social media platforms.LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGESTAB 1791, as amended, Weber. Artificial intelligence: technical open standards and content credentials. Digital content provenance.Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, existing law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. the legal implications associated with the use of digital content forgery technologies, deepfakes, and technologies allowing public verification of digital content provenance.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would require California-based companies that are in the business of generative artificial intelligence to implement the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticitys technical open standard and content credentials into their tools and platforms. prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from removing digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.Digest Key Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO
Amended IN Assembly March 19, 2024
Amended IN Assembly March 19, 2024
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE 20232024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 1791
Introduced by Assembly Member WeberJanuary 04, 2024
Introduced by Assembly Member Weber
January 04, 2024
An act to add Chapter 11.1 (commencing with Section 21760) to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to artificial intelligence. social media platforms.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
## LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1791, as amended, Weber. Artificial intelligence: technical open standards and content credentials. Digital content provenance.
Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, existing law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. the legal implications associated with the use of digital content forgery technologies, deepfakes, and technologies allowing public verification of digital content provenance.This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would require California-based companies that are in the business of generative artificial intelligence to implement the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticitys technical open standard and content credentials into their tools and platforms. prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from removing digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.
Existing law requires the Secretary of Government Operations to develop a coordinated plan to, among other things, investigate the feasibility of, and obstacles to, developing standards and technologies for state departments to determine digital content provenance. For the purpose of informing that coordinated plan, existing law requires the secretary to evaluate, among other things, the impact of the proliferation of deepfakes, defined to mean audio or visual content that has been generated or manipulated by artificial intelligence that would falsely appear to be authentic or truthful and that features depictions of people appearing to say or do things they did not say or do without their consent, on state government, California-based businesses, and residents of the state. the legal implications associated with the use of digital content forgery technologies, deepfakes, and technologies allowing public verification of digital content provenance.
This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this bill to include provisions that would require California-based companies that are in the business of generative artificial intelligence to implement the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticitys technical open standard and content credentials into their tools and platforms. prohibit a social media platform, as defined, from removing digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.
## Digest Key
## Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:SECTION 1. Chapter 11.1 (commencing with Section 21760) is added to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read: CHAPTER 11.1. Digital Content Provenance21760. As used in this chapter:(a) Digital content provenance means the verifiable chronology of the original piece of digital content.(b) Social media platform has the same meaning as defined in Section 22589.21761. A social media platform shall not remove digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.SECTION 1.It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would require California-based companies that are in the business of generative artificial intelligence to implement the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticitys (C2PA) technical open standard and content credentials into their tools and platforms.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
## The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1. Chapter 11.1 (commencing with Section 21760) is added to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read: CHAPTER 11.1. Digital Content Provenance21760. As used in this chapter:(a) Digital content provenance means the verifiable chronology of the original piece of digital content.(b) Social media platform has the same meaning as defined in Section 22589.21761. A social media platform shall not remove digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.
SECTION 1. Chapter 11.1 (commencing with Section 21760) is added to Division 8 of the Business and Professions Code, to read:
### SECTION 1.
CHAPTER 11.1. Digital Content Provenance21760. As used in this chapter:(a) Digital content provenance means the verifiable chronology of the original piece of digital content.(b) Social media platform has the same meaning as defined in Section 22589.21761. A social media platform shall not remove digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.
CHAPTER 11.1. Digital Content Provenance21760. As used in this chapter:(a) Digital content provenance means the verifiable chronology of the original piece of digital content.(b) Social media platform has the same meaning as defined in Section 22589.21761. A social media platform shall not remove digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.
CHAPTER 11.1. Digital Content Provenance
CHAPTER 11.1. Digital Content Provenance
21760. As used in this chapter:(a) Digital content provenance means the verifiable chronology of the original piece of digital content.(b) Social media platform has the same meaning as defined in Section 22589.
21760. As used in this chapter:
(a) Digital content provenance means the verifiable chronology of the original piece of digital content.
(b) Social media platform has the same meaning as defined in Section 22589.
21761. A social media platform shall not remove digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.
21761. A social media platform shall not remove digital content provenance verification from content uploaded to the social media platform by a user.
It is the intent of the Legislature to subsequently amend this measure to include provisions that would require California-based companies that are in the business of generative artificial intelligence to implement the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticitys (C2PA) technical open standard and content credentials into their tools and platforms.