{"id":422663,"date":"2026-08-03T14:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422663\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T14:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T14:49:12","slug":"california-leads-us-with-new-ai-transparency-law-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/422663\/","title":{"rendered":"California Leads US With New AI Transparency Law"},"content":{"rendered":"

Legislation from two Bay Area lawmakers seeks to label content generated by artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n

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Signange of AI is displayed during the MWC (Mobile World Congress), the world’s biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona on March 3, 2025. Peninsula state Sen. Josh Becker, D-San Mateo and East Bay Assemblymember Buffy Wicks are co-authors on the law, which takes effect Saturday.
\n\u00a0(Manaure Quintero\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n

A landmark state law written by Bay Area<\/a> lawmakers aimed at helping people identify content that\u2019s been generated by artificial intelligence will go into effect Saturday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The law requires AI companies to ensure that their images and videos contain embedded, difficult-to-remove data about how the image was made \u2014 often referred to as \u201cprovenance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starting Aug. 2, anyone will be able to put an image, video or audio file into a content verifier<\/a>, like one from the Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity,\u00a0and determine whether or not it is AI-generated, state Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, told KQED.<\/p>\n

\"\"Technology leaders attend a generative artificial intelligence meeting in San Francisco on June 29, 2023. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile AI has some benefits, we\u2019ve seen AI content used for election misinformation for scams and abusive deepfakes,\u201d Becker said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The new law Becker co-authored along with Assemblymember Buffy Wicks, D-Oakland, and Rick Chavez Zbur, D-Los Angeles, will make it easier for everyday people to see what\u2019s real and what\u2019s fabricated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The next phase kicks in on Jan. 1, 2027, and will require large online platforms to give users a way to view that previously stored information and figure out whether or not the content that they\u2019re seeing is AI-generated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Legislation from two Bay Area lawmakers seeks to label content generated by artificial intelligence. Signange of AI is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422643,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-422663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}