New York A 10047: Establishes disclosure requirements for AI-generated or materially AI-altered media depicting historically recognized human disasters when such media is publicly distributed

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A10047 Summary:

BILL NOA10047 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORLavine

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COSPNSR

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MLTSPNSR

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Add Art 47-A §§1710 - 1716, Gen Bus L

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Establishes disclosure requirements for AI-generated or materially AI-altered media depicting historically recognized human disasters when such media is publicly distributed; requires platform operators to allow the use of labelling; provides for enforcement by the attorney general.

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BILL NOA10047 

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01/30/2026referred to consumer affairs and protection

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 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 10047

 IN ASSEMBLY

 January 30, 2026
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. LAVINE -- read once and referred to the Committee
 on Consumer Affairs and Protection

 AN ACT to amend the general business law, in relation to establishing
 disclosure requirements for AI-generated or materially AI-altered
 media depicting historically recognized human disasters when such
 media is publicly distributed

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. The general business law is amended by adding a new article
 2 47-A to read as follows:
 3 ARTICLE 47-A
 4 AI-GENERATED OR MATERIALLY AI-ALTERED MEDIA
 5 Section 1710. Definitions.
 6 1711. Disclosure requirements for AI-generated or materially
 7 AI-altered media; historically recognized human disas-
 8 ters.
 9 1712. Online platform operators.
 10 1713. Enforcement.
 11 1714. Construction.
 12 1715. Rulemaking authority.
 13 1716. Severability.
 14 § 1710. Definitions. As used in this article:
 15 1. "AI" or "artificial intelligence" means a machine-based system that
 16 can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions,
 17 recommendations, or decisions influencing real or virtual environments,
 18 abstract such perceptions into models through analysis in an automated
 19 manner, and use model inference to formulate options for information or
 20 action.
 21 2. "AI-generated content" or "content" means content created by an
 22 artificial intelligence model, which can include text, images, audio,
 23 and video, produced through algorithms trained on large datasets.
 24 3. "Artificial intelligence model" means an information system or
 25 component of an information system that implements artificial intelli-

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD14568-01-6

 A. 10047 2

 1 gence technology and uses computational, statistical, or machine-learn-
 2 ing techniques to produce outputs from a given set of inputs.
 3 4. "Historically recognized human disaster" means an event that
 4 involved injury to or the death of more than ten people, including but
 5 not limited to events involving genocide, war crimes, slavery, terrorist
 6 attacks, mass casualty events, pandemics and natural disasters causing
 7 mass death.
 8 5. "Information content provider" means any person or entity that is
 9 responsible, in whole or in part, for the creation or development of
 10 information provided through the internet or any other interactive
 11 computer service.
 12 6. "Materially deceptive media" means any image, video, audio, text,
 13 or any technological representation of speech or conduct fully or
 14 partially created or modified that:
 15 (a) exhibits a high level of authenticity or convincing appearance
 16 that is visually or audibly indistinguishable from reality to a reason-
 17 able person;
 18 (b) depicts a scenario that did not actually occur or that has been
 19 altered in a significant way from how they actually occurred; and
 20 (c) is created by or with software, machine learning, artificial
 21 intelligence, or any other computer-generated or technological means,
 22 including adapting, modifying, manipulating, or altering a realistic
 23 depiction.
 24 7. "Online platform operator" means any person operating, providing or
 25 offering a computer application or service that provides digital content
 26 and services on the internet, including a public or semi-public web