Is this thing real, or was it made by artificial intelligence?
That question has become important enough, with elections looming this year and a host of audio, video and text increasingly generated by supersmart AI programs, that one California legislator wants to do something about it.
State Sen. Josh Becker, D-Menlo Park, plans to introduce SB942 this session that would require generative AI companies to “watermark” images, videos, audio and potentially other content created by their models.