Protect From Deepfake, Three US Senators Introduce The Content Origin Integrity Bill

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JAKARTA - Three United States (US) Senators introduced the Draft Law on Protection and Integrity of Content Origin from Edited and Fake Media (COPIED Act) to combat the rise of dangerous deepfakes.

The three US Senators who introduced this bill were US Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Senate Commerce Committee member Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), Senate Commerce Committee Chair, and Martinmen (DN.M.), Senate AI Working Group member.

The bill will establish new federal transparency guidelines to mark, authenticate, and detect AI-generated content to protect journalists, actors and artists and hold offenders accountable for abuse.

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"The COPIED Law is taking important steps to better protect general targets such as artists and actors from deepfakes and other inauthentic content," Blackburn said in his official broadcast.

In addition, Cantwell also commented that this law will also restore content control to creators, including journalists, artists, and local musicians, with the process of inclusion of origin and watermarks.

Because according tomen, adding, deepfake is a real threat to the democracy and safety and well-being of citizens of the United States.

If the COPIED Law applies, this policy will create transparency standards through the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish guidelines for content origin information, watermarks, and AI content detection.

The bill will prohibit the use of unauthorized creative or journalistic content to train AI models or create AI content, as well as grant rights to newspapers, broadcasters, artists, and content owners to file a lawsuit in court against platforms or other parties who use their content without permission.

The bill also authorized the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and state attorneys general to enforce the bill's requirements.

The bill will even expand the ban on the destruction or removal of content origin information by internet platforms, search engines, and social media companies.

Several content advocacy groups and journalism also support the COPIED Bill to become law.