California Governor Gavin Newsom is at present contemplating 38 AI-related payments, together with the extremely contentious SB 1047, which the state’s legislature despatched to his desk for last approval. These payments attempt to deal with probably the most urgent points in synthetic intelligence: every little thing from futuristic AI programs creating existential danger, deepfake nudes from AI picture mills, to Hollywood studios creating AI clones of lifeless performers.

“Residence to the vast majority of the world’s main AI corporations, California is working to harness these transformative applied sciences to assist deal with urgent challenges whereas learning the dangers they current,” mentioned Governor Newsom’s workplace in a press release.

To date, Governor Newsom has signed 9 of them into legislation, a few of that are America’s most far reaching AI legal guidelines but.

AI robocalls

On Friday, Governor Newsom signed a invoice into legislation requiring robocalls to reveal whether or not they’ve use AI-generated voices. AB 2905 goals to stop one other occasion of the deepfake robocall resembling Joe Biden’s voice that confused many New Hampshire voters earlier this yr.

Deepfake nudes

Newsom signed two legal guidelines that deal with the creation and unfold of deepfake nudes on Thursday. SB 926 criminalizes the act, making it unlawful to blackmail somebody with AI-generated nude photos that resemble them.

SB 981, which additionally grew to become legislation on Thursday, requires social media platforms to determine channels for customers to report deepfake nudes that resemble them. The content material should then be quickly blocked whereas the platform investigates it, and completely eliminated if confirmed.

Watermarks

Additionally on Thursday, Newsom signed a invoice into legislation to assist the general public determine AI-generated content material. SB 942 requires extensively used generative AI programs to reveal they’re AI-generated of their content material’s provenance information. For instance, all photos created by OpenAI’s Dall-E now want somewhat tag of their metadata saying they’re AI generated.

Many AI corporations already do that, and there are a number of free instruments on the market that may assist folks learn this provenance information and detect AI-generated content material.

Election deepfakes

Earlier this week, California’s governor signed three legal guidelines cracking down on AI deepfakes that might affect elections.

One in all California’s new legal guidelines, AB 2655, requires giant on-line platforms, like Fb and X, to take away or label AI deepfakes associated to elections, in addition to create channels to report such content material. Candidates and elected officers can search injunctive reduction if a big on-line platform shouldn’t be complying with the act.

One other legislation, AB 2839, takes intention at social media customers who submit, or repost, AI deepfakes that might deceive voters about upcoming elections. The legislation went into impact instantly on Tuesday, and Newsom instructed Elon Musk may be at risk of violating it.

AI-generated political commercials now require outright disclosures below California’s new legislation, AB 2355. Meaning shifting ahead, Trump could not have the ability to get away with posting AI deepfakes of Taylor Swift endorsing him on Reality Social (she endorsed Kamala Harris). The FCC has proposed a similar disclosure requirement at a national level and has already made robocalls using AI-generated voices illegal.

Actors and AI

Two legal guidelines that Newsom signed on Tuesday — which SAG-AFTRA, the nation’s largest movie and broadcast actors union, was pushing for — create new requirements for California’s media business. AB 2602 requires studios to obtain permission from an actor earlier than creating an AI-generated duplicate of their voice or likeness.

In the meantime, AB 1836 prohibits studios from creating digital replicas of deceased performers with out consent from their estates (e.g., legally cleared replicas had been used within the latest “Alien” and “Star Wars” motion pictures, in addition to in different movies).

What’s left?

Governor Newsom nonetheless has 29 AI-related payments to determine on earlier than the tip of September. Throughout a chat with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff on Tuesday throughout the 2024 Dreamforce convention, Newsom may have tipped his hat about SB 1047, and the way he’s excited about regulating the AI business extra broadly.

“There’s one invoice that’s type of outsized by way of public discourse and consciousness; it’s this SB 1047,” mentioned Newsom onstage Tuesday. “What are the demonstrable dangers in AI and what are the hypothetical dangers? I can’t remedy for every little thing. What can we remedy for? And in order that’s the strategy we’re taking throughout the spectrum on this.”

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