S.Amdt. 2427

SA 2427. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4638, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2025 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. __. SYNTHETIC CONTENT DISCLOSURE AND DETECTION
INITIATIVE.

(a) Initiative Required.--The Director of the Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency shall, in collaboration
with the Secretary of Commerce, develop an initiative to
research and develop the following:
(1) Machine-readable disclosures and content provenance
information embeddable into digital content.
(2) Techniques to maximize the interoperability,
indelibility, tamper-resistance, and tamper-evidence of such
disclosures and provenance information.
(3) Detection methods for synthetic content and best
practices to address circumvention techniques.
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Content provenance.--The term ``content provenance''
means the chronology of the origin, modifications, and other
information associated with the history of digital content.
(2) Generative artificial intelligence system.--The term
``generative artificial intelligence system'' means any
system or software application that uses artificial
intelligence (as defined in section 238 of the John S. McCain
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019
(Public Law 115-232; 10 U.S.C. note prec. 4061)) to create or
substantially modify image, video, audio, text, or other
content.
(3) Machine-readable.--The term ``machine-readable'' has
the meaning given such term in section 3502 of title 44,
United States Code.
(4) Synthetic content.--The term ``synthetic content''
means information, such as images, videos, audio clips, and
text, that has been significantly modified or generated by
algorithms, including by a generative artificial intelligence
system.
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