The California Democratic congressman Adam Schiff introduced the bill, the Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act, which would require that AI companies submit any copyrighted works in their training datasets to the Register of Copyrights before releasing new generative AI systems, which create text, images, music or video in response to users’ prompts. The bill would need companies to file such documents at least 30 days before publicly debuting their AI tools, or face a financial penalty. Such datasets encompass billions of lines of text and images or millions of hours of music and movies.
Since training many of these systems appears to have involved a bunch of larcenous vandals scraping a huge portion of the internet, plus every copyrighted work they can otherwise get their hands on, this bill would be pretty funny to see in action. 