WHAT THIS BILL REGULATES · 1 REQUIREMENT TYPE
How Is This Bill Enforced
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(1) 1 Any book that was wholly or partially created through the use of generative artificial intelligenceGenerative artificial intelligence"generative artificial intelligence" shall mean the use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and algorithms to perform tasks, to make rules and/or predictions based on existing data sets and instructions, including, but not limited to: (a) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets; (b) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action; (c) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks; (d) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task; and/or (e) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision making, and acting.Gen. Bus. Law § 338(3), published in this state, shall conspicuously disclose upon the cover of the book, that such book was created with the use of generative artificial intelligenceGenerative artificial intelligence"generative artificial intelligence" shall mean the use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and algorithms to perform tasks, to make rules and/or predictions based on existing data sets and instructions, including, but not limited to: (a) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets; (b) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action; (c) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks; (d) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task; and/or (e) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision making, and acting.Gen. Bus. Law § 338(3).
(2) Books subject to the provisions of this section shall include, but not be limited to, all printed and digital books, regardless of such books' target age group or audience, consisting of text, pictures, audio, puzzles, games or any combination thereof.
(3) For the purposes of this section, "generative artificial intelligenceGenerative artificial intelligence"generative artificial intelligence" shall mean the use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and algorithms to perform tasks, to make rules and/or predictions based on existing data sets and instructions, including, but not limited to: (a) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets; (b) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action; (c) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks; (d) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task; and/or (e) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision making, and acting.Gen. Bus. Law § 338(3)" shall mean the use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and algorithms to perform tasks, to make rules and/or predictions based on existing data sets and instructions, including, but not limited to: (a) Any artificial system that performs tasks under varying and unpredictable circumstances without significant human oversight, or that can learn from experience and improve performance when exposed to data sets; (b) An artificial system developed in computer software, physical hardware, or other context that solves tasks requiring human-like perception, cognition, planning, learning, communication, or physical action; (c) An artificial system designed to think or act like a human, including cognitive architectures and neural networks; (d) A set of techniques, including machine learning, that is designed to approximate a cognitive task; and/or (e) An artificial system designed to act rationally, including an intelligent software agent or embodied robot that achieves goals using perception, planning, reasoning, learning, communicating, decision making, and acting.
Section 338 imposes a single, straightforward disclosure obligation: any book published in New York that was wholly or partially created through the use of generative AI must carry a conspicuous disclosure on its cover. The obligation runs to whoever publishes the book, though the bill does not formally define "publisher" as a covered entity term.
Subdivision 2 defines the scope of covered books broadly — all printed and digital books regardless of target audience, encompassing text, pictures, audio, puzzles, games, or any combination. Subdivision 3 provides an unusually expansive definition of "generative artificial intelligence" that reaches well beyond generative models to include essentially any AI or machine learning system. The bill contains no enforcement mechanism, penalties, or private right of action; compliance incentives would depend on general remedies available under New York General Business Law.
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
Section 2 provides that the act takes effect on the sixtieth day after it becomes law. No staged implementation or phased compliance timeline is specified.