Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 2024

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-01-03

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

• AI system security vulnerabilities
• False or misleading information
• Pollution of information ecosystem
• Disinformation, surveillance, and influence at scale
• Fraud, scams, and targeted manipulation
• Lack of capability or robustness
• Lack of transparency or interpretability

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• Compromise of privacy
• Economic and cultural devaluation of human effort

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 8-10 subdomains, with strong focus on misinformation (3.1, 3.2), malicious actors (4.1, 4.3), privacy and security (2.1, 2.2), and system safety (7.3, 7.4). Coverage is concentrated in content authenticity, provenance tracking, and preventing misuse of AI-generated content.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• Information
• Professional & Technical Services
• Arts, Entertainment & Recreation

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Scientific Research & Development Services
• Educational Services
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)
• National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

The document primarily governs the Information sector (social media platforms, content platforms, technology companies creating AI tools) and has significant implications for Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation (content creators, artists) and Professional and Technical Services (AI developers, technology consultants). It also touches on Educational Services and Health Care through references to journalists and public education.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding legislative act from the United States Congress with mandatory requirements, explicit enforcement mechanisms through the FTC and state attorneys general, civil and criminal penalties, and specific compliance obligations with legal consequences for violations.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The document is a Congressional bill proposed by the legislative branch of the United States government, as indicated by the opening text and structure of the legislation.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Developer, AI_Deployer, AI_Infrastructure_Provider
• Summary: The Act targets any person who makes available tools for creating synthetic or synthetically-modified content for commercial purposes, and specifically regulates covered platforms that host and distribute content. These entities include AI developers creating generative tools, deployers operating platforms, and infrastructure providers hosting content.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Act explicitly designates the Federal Trade Commission as the primary enforcement body and grants state attorneys general authority to bring civil actions on behalf of state residents for violations of the Act.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Act establishes monitoring and oversight responsibilities through the Under Secretary who must establish public-private partnerships, facilitate standards development, conduct research programs, and carry out public education campaigns. Multiple federal agencies are designated to coordinate on detection challenges and standards development.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Collect and Process Data
• Build and Use Model
• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, with some coverage of Build and Use Model stage. It focuses on requirements for tools that create synthetic content (build stage) and mandates for content provenance information at deployment and ongoing monitoring through detection technologies.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems
• Generative AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions AI systems and artificial intelligence broadly, with specific focus on generative AI capabilities (synthetic content creation). It addresses algorithms and AI training but does not use terminology like frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, or compute thresholds. The scope is primarily on AI systems that generate or modify content.