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Legislation would put journalists, artists, songwriters more in control of their creative content
WASHINGTON D.C. — U.S. Sens. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., co-founder and co-chair of the Senate AI Caucus and a member of the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group, Maria Cantwell, D-Wash., Chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, and Marsha Blackburn, R-Tenn., member of the Commerce Committee, introduced the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act to combat the rise of harmful deepfakes on July 12.
The legislation would set new federal transparency guidelines for marking, authenticating and detecting AI-generated content, protect journalists, actors, and...