S.Amdt. 2938

SA 2938. Mr. SCHATZ submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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 XVI, insert the
following:

SEC. ___. REQUIREMENTS FOR PUBLICLY DISTRIBUTED CONTENT BY
THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

(a) Authentic Content Disclosures.--The Secretary of
Defense shall--
(1) ensure that any covered content that it distributes or
displays to the United States public does not contain any
false designation of origin, false or misleading description
of fact, or false or misleading representation of fact,
which--
(A) is likely to cause confusion, to cause mistake, or to
deceive as to the affiliation, connection, or association of
the covered content with another person, event, good,
service, or activity; and
(B) in promotion, misrepresents the nature,
characteristics, qualities, or origin of the covered content;
and
(2) ensure that any covered artificial intelligence-
generated content it distributes or displays to the United
States public incorporates a clear and conspicuous disclosure
that--
(A) identifies that the covered content includes artificial
intelligence-generated content;
(B) meets accessibility standards for people with
disabilities as required by the Americans with Disabilities
Act of 1990 (42 U.S.C. 12101 et seq.); and
(C) is embedded in the covered content.
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Covered artificial intelligence-generated content.--The
term ``covered artificial intelligence-generated content''
means digital content that is created or substantially
modified by a generative artificial intelligence system such
that--
(A) the use of the system materially alters, adds, or
removes the meaning or significance that a reasonable person
would interpret from the content; and
(B) a reasonable person would believe that the content is
not generated using a generative artificial intelligence
system.
(2) Covered content.--The term ``covered content'' means an
image, video, or audio content, or any combination thereof,
including covered artificial intelligence-generated content.
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