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AB-2713 • 2026

California AI Transparency Act: system provenance data.

California AI Transparency Act: system provenance data.

Technology
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Wicks
Last action
2026-04-22
Official status
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill does not specify what constitutes a 'large online platform'.

California AI Transparency Act: System Provenance Data

This act requires large online platforms to detect and display system provenance data embedded in or attached to content, allowing users to inspect this data through various methods.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires large online platforms to detect any system provenance data that is embedded into, attached to, or associated with content distributed on the platform.
  • Allows users to inspect all available system provenance data in an easily accessible manner using three different methods: directly through the user interface, downloading a version of the content with its attached data, or providing a link to the data.
  • Requires large online platforms to display information about whether provenance data or digital signatures are embedded into, attached to, or associated with the content.
  • Prohibits large online platforms from knowingly stripping provenance data or digital signatures that are downloaded from the platform.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Large online platforms
  • Users of these platforms

Terms To Know

System Provenance Data
Information about how content was created or altered by an AI system, including details like the source code and algorithms used.
Digital Signature
A cryptographic technique that verifies the authenticity of digital information.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens if a platform fails to comply with these requirements.
  • It is unclear how this act will be enforced or who will oversee its implementation.
  • The effective date for when this act becomes operational has not been set.

Bill History

  1. 2026-04-22 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  2. 2026-04-21 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  3. 2026-04-20 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 16).

  4. 2026-04-07 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

  5. 2026-04-06 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended.

  6. 2026-03-31 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  7. 2026-03-23 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P.

  8. 2026-03-19 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended.

  9. 2026-03-19 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD.

  10. 2026-02-21 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  11. 2026-02-20 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 2713, as amended, Wicks.
California AI Transparency Act: system provenance
data: inspection.
data.
Existing law, the California AI Transparency Act, requires, among other things, a person that creates, codes, or otherwise produces a generative artificial intelligence (AI) system that has over 1,000,000 monthly visitors or users and is publicly accessible within the geographic boundaries of the state to make available an AI detection tool at no cost to the user. The act requires the AI detection tool to, among other things, allow a user to assess whether the image, video, or audio content was created or altered by that person’s generative AI system. Existing law makes the act operative on August 2, 2026.
The act requires a large online platform to
allow a user to inspect all available system provenance data, as specified, in an easily accessible manner. The act specifies the means of inspection to include directly through the large online platform’s user interface, allowing a user to download a version of the content with its attached system provenance data, or providing a link to the content’s system provenance data, as specified.
detect whether any provenance data that is compliant with widely adopted specifications adopted by an established standards-setting body is embedded into or attached to content distributed on the large online platform.
The bill would specify that the large online platform may satisfy the
inspection requirement by any of the above-described means of allowing inspection. The bill would make the option of allowing the user to download a version of the content with its attached system provenance data subject to applicable federal copyright laws.
This bill would instead require a large online platform to detect any system provenance data that is embedded into, attached to, or associated with content, as specified.
The California AI Transparency Act requires a large online platform to provide a user interface that, among other things, makes certain information clearly and conspicuously available to users. The act requires that information to include whether provenance data or digital signatures are
available.
This bill would instead require that information to include whether provenance data or digital signatures are embedded into, attached to, or otherwise associated with the content.
The California AI Transparency Act requires a large online platform to allow a user to inspect all available system provenance data that is compliant with widely adopted specifications adopted by an established standards-setting body in an easily accessible manner. The act specifies 3 means of inspection, including directly through the large online platform’s user interface, allowing a user to download a version of the content with its attached system provenance data, and providing a link to the content’s system provenance
data displayed on an internet website or in another application either by the large online platform or a third party.
This bill would instead require a large online platform to allow a user to inspect any system provenance data that is embedded into, attached to, or associated with content, as specified. The bill would allow a large online platform to satisfy that requirement by any of the 3 means of inspection, as revised by the bill. The first would be by displaying the system provenance data directly through the large online platform’s user interface. The second would be by providing a link to an internet website or other application that displays the system provenance data, including a website or application operated by a third party. The third would be by allowing a user to download any provenance data embedded into, attached to, or otherwise associated with the content, subject to any applicable federal copyright laws, in a format that cannot be easily
embedded into, attached to, or associated with unrelated content.
The California AI Transparency Act prohibits a large online platform from knowingly stripping provenance data or a digital signature, as specified, from content uploaded or distributed on the large online platform.
This bill would prohibit a large online platform from knowingly stripping provenance data or a digital signature that is downloaded from the large online platform.

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