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(1) For 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 or 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; 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(1)" shall mean the use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and algorithms to perform tasks or 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; 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.
Subdivision 1 defines generative artificial intelligence for purposes of this section. The definition is extremely broad, encompassing any use of machine learning technology, software, automation, and algorithms to perform tasks or make rules and predictions based on existing data sets. It includes five illustrative categories covering autonomous systems, human-like cognitive systems, neural networks, machine learning techniques, and rational agent systems. Notably, the definition is not limited to content-generation AI — it would capture virtually any algorithmic or automated system.
(2) 1 Every newspaper, magazine or other publication printed or electronically published in this state, which contains an article, periodical, photograph, video or other visual image which was wholly or partially composed or authored 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 or 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; 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(1) or other information communication technology, shall conspicuously imprint on the top of the page or webpage of such publication that such article, periodical, photograph, video or other visual image was composed through the use of artificial intelligence or other information communication technology.
Subdivision 2 imposes the bill's sole operative obligation: every newspaper, magazine, or other publication printed or electronically published in New York that contains an article, periodical, photograph, video, or other visual image wholly or partially composed or authored through generative AI or other information communication technology must conspicuously imprint at the top of the page or webpage a disclosure that the content was composed through AI or other information communication technology. The obligation applies broadly to any publication containing any AI-composed content, with no materiality threshold, no exceptions for incidental AI assistance, and no specification of the exact label language beyond the general requirement that it identify AI involvement.
This act shall take effect on the sixtieth day after it shall have become a law.
Standard effective date provision establishing that the act takes effect on the sixtieth day after it becomes law.