Title 15, Commerce and TradeRelease 119-110
§9203 Nist Support for Research and Standards on Generative Adversarial Networks
Title 15 › CHAPTER 117 — IDENTIFYING OUTPUTS OF GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORKS › § 9203
Summary
The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology must support research to develop measurements and standards that help build tools to check how generative adversarial networks and similar content‑making or content‑editing technologies work and what they produce. The Director must also get input from industry, government, and academia and study whether ongoing public‑private efforts should be created to set voluntary standards.
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Title 15, §9203
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(a)In general
The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall support research for the development of measurements and standards necessary to accelerate the development of the technological tools to examine the function and outputs of generative adversarial networks or other technologies that synthesize or manipulate content.
(b)Outreach
The Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology shall conduct outreach—
(1)to receive input from private, public, and academic stakeholders on fundamental measurements and standards research necessary to examine the function and outputs of generative adversarial networks; and
(2)to consider the feasibility of an ongoing public and private sector engagement to develop voluntary standards for the function and outputs of generative adversarial networks or other technologies that synthesize or manipulate content.
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15 U.S.C. § 9203
Title 15, Commerce and Trade
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2026
Release point: 119-110