H.R. 8893

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8893 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
2d Session
H. R. 8893

To require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to 
establish task forces to facilitate and inform the development of 
technical standards and guidelines relating to the identification of 
content created by generative artificial intelligence, and for other 
purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

May 19, 2026

Mrs. Foushee (for herself, Mr. Moylan, Mr. Beyer, and Mr. Fitzpatrick) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on 
Science, Space, and Technology

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A BILL

To require the National Institute of Standards and Technology to 
establish task forces to facilitate and inform the development of 
technical standards and guidelines relating to the identification of 
content created by generative artificial intelligence, and for other 
purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Protecting Consumers from Deceptive 
AI Act''.

SEC. 2. GUIDELINES TO FACILITATE DISTINGUISHING CONTENT GENERATED BY 
GENERATIVE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(a) Task Forces for Development of Guidelines and Promoting 
Standards.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of 
the enactment of this Act, the Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology shall establish task 
forces to accomplish the following goals:
(A) Supporting the development of technical 
standards and guidelines to provide content provenance 
metadata, watermarking, digital fingerprinting for 
audio or visual content, and other technical measures 
that the task forces determine significant. To the 
extent technically feasible, such task forces should 
seek to make content provenance metadata 
cryptographically verifiable, and to make watermarks 
difficult to remove or obscure.
(B) Supporting the development of technical 
standards and guidelines to assist online application 
and content providers and operators in identifying and 
labeling audio or visual content created or 
substantially modified by generative artificial 
intelligence, including exploring interoperable 
standards that assist social media and other online 
platforms with identifying, maintaining, interpreting, 
and displaying watermarks, digital fingerprinting, and 
secure content provenance metadata associated with 
audio or visual content, while considering 
circumvention techniques and enforcement.
(C) Supporting the development of technical 
standards and guidelines to identify and label text-
based content created or substantially modified by 
generative artificial intelligence. Such support may 
include developing standards to embed content 
provenance data or metadata, watermarking, digital 
fingerprinting, or other technical measures when 
creating such content.
(2) Standards bodies.--To the extent possible, the outcome 
and output of the task forces established pursuant to paragraph 
(1) should inform development of technical standards developed 
by private, consensus organizations, as referred to in section 
2 of the National Institute of Standards and Technology Act (15 
U.S.C. 272) and OMB Circular A-119.
(3) Membership.--The Director of the National Institute of 
Standards and Technology shall include in the memberships of 
each of the task forces described in paragraph (1) appropriate 
representatives of the following:
(A) Relevant Federal agencies.
(B) Developers of generative artificial 
intelligence.
(C) Entities, including standards development 
organizations, engaged in the development of content 
detection standards and technology, including 
authentication and traceability.
(D) Social networking service providers and online 
instant messaging service providers.
(E) Online search engine service providers.
(F) Developers of web browsers and mobile operating 
systems.
(G) Academic entities, civil society and advocacy 
groups, and other related entities, especially such 
entities and groups engaged in the development or 
implementation of content detection standards and 
technology.
(H) Privacy advocates and experts.
(I) Human rights lawyers and advocates with 
expertise in the effects of technology in countries 
around the world.
(J) Media organizations, including news publishers 
and image providers.
(K) Creator associations and organizations 
representing the interests of other copyright owners.
(L) Labor organizations with expertise relating to 
the workforce impacts of generative artificial 
intelligence.
(M) Artificial intelligence testing experts, such 
as those with privacy expertise in artificial 
intelligence red-teaming.
(N) Technical experts in digital forensics, 
cryptography, and secure digital content and delivery.
(O) Any other entity the Director determines 
appropriate.
(4) Duties.--
(A) Submission to director.--Each of the task 
forces established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall, not 
later than 270 days after the establishment of each 
such task force, submit to the Director of the National 
Institute of Standards and Technology a report 
containing recommendations relating to the technical 
standards and guidelines each such task force is 
supporting.
(B) Submission to congress.--Each of the task 
forces established pursuant to paragraph (1) shall, not 
later than one year after the establishment of each 
such task force and annually thereafter for five years, 
submit to the Committee on Science, Space, and 
Technology and the Committee on Energy and Commerce of 
the House of Representatives and the Committee on 
Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate a 
report on the activities of such task force for the 
immediately preceding one year period.
(5) Privacy.--The task forces established pursuant to 
paragraph (1) shall consider issuing guidance for online 
service and application providers and operators to store and 
display content provenance data and metadata in a privacy-
preserving manner, including clear guidance on how such 
providers and operators can indicate to users when such users 
are sharing content that contains content provenance data and 
metadata, indicate the information contained in the data and 
metadata such users are sharing, and provide options to limit 
the data and metadata such users are sharing that may have 
privacy implications.
(b) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) Audio or visual content.--The term ``audio or visual 
content'' means content in the form of a digital image, a 
video, or audio.
(2) Content provenance.--The term ``content provenance'' 
means the chronology of the origin and history associated with 
digital content.
(3) Digital fingerprinting.--The term ``digital 
fingerprinting'' means the process by which an identifier is 
derived from a piece of digital content and stored in a 
database, for the purpose of identifying, matching against, or 
verifying such content, or similar content, at a later date.
(4) Generative artificial intelligence.--The term 
``generative artificial intelligence'' means the class of 
models and algorithms that use deep learning algorithms or 
other statistical techniques to generate new data that has 
similar characteristics and properties to the data with respect 
to which such models and algorithms have been trained, 
including any form of digital content.
(5) Labor organization.--The term ``labor organization'' 
has the meaning given such term in section 10002 of the 
Research and Development, Competition, and Innovation Act (42 
U.S.C. 18901).
(6) Metadata.--The term ``metadata'' has the meaning given 
such term in section 3502 of title 44, United States Code.
(7) Watermarking.--The term ``watermarking'' means the act 
of embedding tamper-resistant information into digital content 
(perceptibly or imperceptibly) which may be used to establish 
some aspect or aspects of the content provenance of the content 
or to store reference information.
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