Current:Home > StocksConsumers would be notified of AI-generated content under Pennsylvania bill -Elite Financial Minds
Consumers would be notified of AI-generated content under Pennsylvania bill
View
Date:2025-04-16 07:37:14
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania consumers would be notified when content has been generated by artificial intelligence, and defendants couldn’t argue that child sexual abuse material created by artificial intelligence isn’t illegal, under a bill the House passed Wednesday.
The bill’s prime sponsor, Rep. Chris Pielli, said it was designed to place guardrails around the use of artificial intelligence to protect consumers.
“This bill is simple,” Pielli, a Democrat from Chester County, said in floor remarks. “If it’s AI, it has to say it’s AI. Buyer beware.”
Lawmakers voted 146-54 to send the measure to the state Senate for its consideration. All Democrats were in favor, while Republicans were roughly split.
The bill would change the state’s Unfair Trade Practices and Consumer Protection Law to require “clear and conspicuous disclosure” when artificial intelligence has been used to create written text, images, audio or video.
The notice would have to be displayed when the content is first shown to consumers. Violators would have to knowingly or recklessly post AI content, which Pielli said would help protect news organizations that unwittingly publish AI content.
It is opposed by the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry on the grounds that it could expose businesses to civil litigation and would not be limited to deceptive material. The group is specifically opposed to the consumer notification portion of the bill, a chamber spokesman said.
Another provision of the bill prohibits defendants from arguing that child sexual abuse material created by artificial intelligence isn’t illegal under criminal laws.
Public disclosure of AI’s use is an emerging theme across hundreds of state bills in U.S. legislatures that seek to regulate the new technology.
AI filters job and rental applications, determines medical care in some cases and helps create images that find huge audiences on social media, but there are scant laws requiring companies or creators to disclose that AI was used at all. That has left Americans largely in the dark about the technology, even as it spreads to every corner of life.
Margaret Durking, TechNet executive director for Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic, said in a statement Wednesday that her organization expects to work with lawmakers on the definition of AI, “to decrease the uncertainty of who and what is affected.”
TechNet is a trade group of senior executives that lobbies for tech companies such as Meta and Google. Spokesman Steve Kidera said the group hopes to work with lawmakers to get from an opposed to a neutral position.
“For example, how does a football broadcast that uses AI to show predictive visual cues know when it’s the first time a consumer is interacting with their AI? If a copywriter uses a generative AI product to help them write something, are they obligated to present a disclosure? And how do they do that?” Durking asked.
The Washington, D.C.-based BSA The Software Alliance, which advocates for the global software industry, said that as of early February there were several hundred AI-related bills pending before about 40 state legislatures. Topics covered by the bills include the risk of bias and discrimination, and deepfakes.
___
Associated Press writer Jesse Bedayn in Denver contributed to this report.
veryGood! (12)
Related
- Former Syrian official arrested in California who oversaw prison charged with torture
- Brittany Mahomes Shares Message on Being Unapologetically Yourself While Making SI Swimsuit Debut
- Henry Fambrough, the last surviving original member of The Spinners, dies at 85
- Attorneys for West Virginia governor’s family want to block planned land auction to repay loans
- Are Instagram, Facebook and WhatsApp down? Meta says most issues resolved after outages
- New Hampshire Senate votes to move state primary from September to June. The House wants August
- Have a story about your sibling? Share it with us!
- Truck driver buys lottery ticket in Virginia, finds out he won big in Texas
- Trump wants to turn the clock on daylight saving time
- Audit of $19,000 lectern purchase for Arkansas governor almost done
Ranking
- Senate begins final push to expand Social Security benefits for millions of people
- Michael Strahan's daughter Isabella, 19, shares 'not fun' health update ahead of chemotherapy
- FCC declares AI-generated voices in robocalls are illegal
- Nevada Republicans wait in long lines in order to caucus for Donald Trump, who is expected to win
- Sarah J. Maas books explained: How to read 'ACOTAR,' 'Throne of Glass' in order.
- AP Decision Notes: What to expect in the race to replace George Santos
- Deadly military helicopter crash among many aviation disasters in Southern California
- California governor to send prosecutors to Oakland to help crack down on rising crime
Recommendation
Tree trimmer dead after getting caught in wood chipper at Florida town hall
Missouri coroner accused of stealing from a dead person, misstating causes of death
Utah governor says school board member who questioned a student’s gender ‘embarrassed the state’
AI-generated voices in robocalls can deceive voters. The FCC just made them illegal
Sonya Massey's father decries possible release of former deputy charged with her death
A Nebraska bill would hire a hacker to probe the state’s computer, elections systems
Jennifer Garner Reveals Why 13 Going on 30 Costar Mark Ruffalo Almost Quit the Film
Tucker Carlson, the fired Fox News star, makes bid for relevance with Putin interview