AI Training Data Transparency Bill Passed in California

A measure that would require AI companies to be more transparent about the data they use to train their models cleared the California legislature on Tuesday. It will go to Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), who hasn’t weighed in on the bill.

The bill (AB 2013) by Assemblymember Jacqui Irwin (D) would be the most comprehensive law in the nation governing training data transparency, though it was narrowed Aug. 20 to apply only to generative AI, the type that can create text, images, and similar content such as Open AI’s ChatGPT. While provisions in Colorado’s first-in-the-nation AI law touch ...