[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4752]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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