The bill, called AB 3211It has so far been overshadowed by attention on another California artificial intelligence (AI) bill, SB 1047, which requires AI developers to perform safety testing on some of their own models.
That bill has faced backlash from the tech industry, including Microsoft-backed OpenAI.
According to the state’s legislative database, California state lawmakers attempted to introduce 65 AI-related bills during this legislative season, including measures to ensure all algorithmic decisions are unbiased and to protect the intellectual property of deceased individuals from exploitation by AI companies. Many of the bills are now dead.
San Francisco-based OpenAI believes that for AI-generated content, transparency And provenance requirements like watermarking are important, especially in an election year, according to a letter sent to California State Assembly member Buffy Wicks, who authored the bill.
Elections will be held this year in countries representing a third of the world’s population, and experts are concerned about the role that AI-generated content will play, which has already featured prominently in some elections, such as in Indonesia.
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“New technologies and standards can help people understand the origin of content they encounter online and avoid confusion between human-generated content and photorealistic AI-generated content,” OpenAI chief strategy officer Jason Kwon wrote in the letter, which was seen by Reuters. AB 3211 has already passed the state Assembly by a vote of 62-0. It was approved by the Senate appropriations committee earlier this month, setting it up for a vote on the floor of the state Senate. If passed before the end of the legislative session on Aug. 31, it would go to Gov. Gavin Newsom to sign or veto by Sept. 30.
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