California AI Transparency Act.

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not specify the exact nature of the latent disclosure beyond requiring it to indicate whether content is generated or modified by AI.

California AI Transparency Act

The California AI Transparency Act updates rules for companies creating or using artificial intelligence (AI) systems accessible in California, requiring them to include information about the origin of AI-generated content.

What This Bill Does

• Changes the definition of 'covered provider' to include any company that creates an AI system accessible in California, regardless of user numbers.
• Removes the requirement for companies to offer a tool allowing users to add labels to AI-created content.
• Requires companies to include information about whether content is generated or modified by AI within the latent disclosure.
• Adds an exemption for products designed primarily to facilitate accessibility for disabled individuals.

Who It Names or Affects

• Companies that create and distribute artificial intelligence systems in California
• Users of AI-generated content

Terms To Know

Covered provider

A company that creates or uses an AI system accessible to people in California.

Latent disclosure

Information hidden within the content itself, like a digital watermark, indicating it was made by AI.

Limits and Unknowns

• The bill does not specify how companies must label AI-generated content.
• It is unclear what specific actions will be taken if a company fails to comply with these new rules.

Official Summary Text

SB 1000, as amended, Becker.
California AI Transparency Act.
Existing law, the California AI Transparency Act, beginning August 2, 2026, generally regulates provenance data disclosure in content generated by artificial intelligence (AI), including by requiring a covered provider to make available an AI detection tool at no cost to the user that meets certain criteria. Existing law requires a covered provider to offer the user the option to include a certain manifest disclosure in image, video, or audio content, or content that is any combination thereof, created or altered by the covered provider’s generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) system and requires a covered provider to include a certain latent disclosure in AI-generated image, video, or audio content, or content that is any combination thereof, created by the covered provider’s GenAI system. Existing law defines “covered provider” for these purposes to mean a person that creates,
codes, or otherwise produces a generative AI system that has over 1,000,000 monthly visitors or users and is publicly accessible within the geographic boundaries of the state.
This bill would recast those provisions to, among other changes, delete the user threshold from the definition of “covered provider,” replace the term “AI detection tool” with “disclosure verification tool,” delete the above-described requirement of a covered provider to offer the user the option to include a manifest disclosure in content, and additionally require a covered provider to include in the above-described latent disclosure whether the content is generated or modified by artificial intelligence.
This bill would also exempt from those provisions a product, service, or application that is primarily marketed and intended to facilitate accessibility for disabled individuals and is designed to prevent content generated by the product, service,
internet website, or application from being downloaded, stored, or otherwise appropriated, to the extent technically feasible.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Current Bill Text

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