Enacts the "New York artificial intelligence transparency for journalism act"

◆ The sponsor's argument

Why Kristen Gonzalez says this is needed

The purpose of this legislation is to provide public disclosure when journalistic work product is used to train generative AI systems. Broadcasters and news publishers invest millions of dollars annually to gather and report local news in communities throughout the New York. Technology companies gather this original news content, usually without consent or compensation, and use it to train their large language AI systems in order to generate summaries of the gathered information. AI developers use technological tools to scrape original reporting from behind news organizations' paywalls and to evade technologies designed to prevent unauthorized copying of news content. This legislation is narrowly crafted to allow news publishers and broad- casters ability to know when their content is being used to train and fine tune large language AI systems. It simply requires transparency by AI developers. Pursuant to the legislation, technology companies would be required to maintain a publicly available website listing the news sources they have used to train their AI systems. The legislation is fully consistent with federal copyright law. The focus of the legislation is simply to provide transparency. Liability is imposed on an AI developer solely for failing to list the news sources it has used to train and fine tune its large language AI model. This is distinct from copyright liability, which focuses on the use of such content. This legislation does not address whether using content to train large language AI systems constitutes "fair use" under federal copyright law-it only requires disclosure.

This is the sponsor's own case for the bill, quoted from their memorandum. It is not Agora's description of what the bill does.