The Generative AI Copyright Disclosure Act: Congress Grapples With Transparency

Generative AI has captured the attention of the world. As the public has embraced this revolutionary technology, some creative communities have raised concerns about their copyrighted works being ingested or fed into AI models for training purposes.

Among other things, content creators have expressed a need for transparency in regard to AI model training, with copyright owners being able to determine whether their works were, in fact, used to train AI models.

These concerns have not gone unheard by the US Congress. In fact, both the US Senate and US House of Representatives have taken notice.

The Route to Legislation

In the Senate, the Bipartisan Senate AI Working Group—led by US Senate Leader Chuck Schumer and Senators Mike Rounds, Martin Heinrich, and Todd Young—has conducted a series of nine closed-door forums to build consensus on how AI legislation should be crafted, and recently issued a 'roadmap' for AI policy development in the Senate.