[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4754]
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  SA 2432. 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 XVI, insert the 
     following:

     SEC. __. MODIFICATION OF REQUIREMENT FOR PRIZE COMPETITION 
                   FOR TECHNOLOGY THAT DETECTS AND DISCLOSES USE 
                   OF GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

       (a) In General.--Section 1543 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118-31; 10 
     U.S.C. 4025 note) is amended--
       (1) in the section heading, by striking ``watermarks'' and 
     inserting ``discloses'';
       (2) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by striking ``watermarking'' and inserting 
     ``disclosure''; and
       (B) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``, including techniques 
     to maximize their interoperability, indelibility, tamper-
     resistance, and tamper-evidence, as applicable,'' after 
     ``such technologies'';
       (3) in subsection (c), by striking ``Watermark'' and 
     inserting ``Disclosure'';
       (4) in subsection (f), by striking ``until the date of 
     termination under subsection (g);'';
       (5) by striking subsection (g) and inserting the following:
       ``(g) Frequency.--The prize competition under subsection 
     (a) shall repeat every two years from the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.'';
       (6) by striking subsection (h) and inserting the following:
       ``(h) Definition of Generative Artificial Intelligence 
     Disclosure.--The term `generative artificial intelligence 
     disclosure' means, with respect to digital content, embedding 
     within or binding to such content data conveying attribution 
     of the generation of such content to generative artificial 
     intelligence. Such term includes techniques, such as visible 
     and invisible watermarks, fingerprints, and cryptographically 
     signed metadata.''; and
       (7) by redesignating subsection (h), as amended by 
     paragraph (6), as subsection (i) and inserting after 
     subsection (g), as added by paragraph (5), the following new 
     subsection (h):
       ``(h) Prize Amount.--In carrying out a prize competition 
     under subsection (a), the Secretary may award not more than a 
     total of $5,000,000 to one or more winners of the prize 
     competition.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in section 
     2(b) of such Act is amended by striking the item relating to 
     section 1543 and inserting the following new item:

``Sec. 1543. Prize competition for technology that detects and 
              discloses use of generative artificial intelligence.''.
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