Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act
Sponsored By: Representative Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4]
Introduced
Summary
Establishes technical standards for provenance, watermarking, and fingerprinting of AI-generated content. This bill would direct the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create task forces to develop verifiable, tamper-resistant methods to label and identify text and audio/visual material generated or substantially modified by generative AI.
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- Online platforms would get interoperable standards and guidance to display and preserve provenance metadata, watermarks, and fingerprints. Task forces must deliver recommendations within 270 days to inform platform practices.
- AI developers, standards bodies, testing experts, and diverse stakeholders would join NIST task forces to help design cryptographic verification, tamper-resistant watermarking, and technical guidelines. The task forces must be established within 90 days.
- Consumers, journalists, and creators would get clearer labeling and disclosure rules so people can know when content is AI-origin. The task forces must also recommend privacy-preserving storage and limits on what provenance data is shared and report annually for five years.
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 0 costs, 1 mixed.
New rules for AI-made audio and video
This bill would require makers of generative-AI apps to add a machine-readable disclosure when audio or video is created or substantially changed by their tool. The disclosure would include the app name, the AI model name and version, the creation or modification date and time, and which part was created by AI, and app makers would need reasonable measures to prevent tampering. Large online platforms (those with at least $50,000,000 in annual revenue or 25,000,000 monthly users for 3 of the last 12 months) would have to show these disclosures clearly and could not remove them. The Federal Trade Commission would have to write rules within two years, could approve self-regulatory guidelines, and could enforce violations under the FTC Act with its usual penalties.
Standards task forces for AI content
This bill would direct NIST to set up task forces within 90 days to develop technical standards for provenance metadata, watermarking, and digital fingerprints for AI-generated or substantially modified audio, video, and text. The groups would try, where technically feasible, to make provenance cryptographically verifiable and watermarks tamper-resistant and would consider privacy-preserving ways to store and show metadata. Each task force would give recommendations to the NIST Director within 270 days and must report to Congress within one year and then once a year for five years. Membership would include federal agencies, AI developers, platform and browser makers, academics, privacy and rights experts, creators, and digital forensics specialists.
Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Foushee, Valerie P. [D-NC-4]
NC • D
Cosponsors
Rep. Beyer, Donald S. [D-VA-8]
VA • D
Sponsored 4/23/2026
Del. Moylan, James C. [R-GU-At Large]
GU • R
Sponsored 4/23/2026
Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]
PA • R
Sponsored 5/12/2026
Roll Call Votes
No roll call votes available for this bill.
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