California AI Transparency Act: Disclosure Requirements
Notices and disclosures the law requires to be provided to consumers, employees, or downstream parties.
Disclosure requirements
- transparency→ developerCal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.2
Maintain a free AI detection tool allowing users to assess whether image, video, or audio content was created or altered by the covered provider's GenAI system.
Timing: from_2026-08-02
- transparency→ developerCal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.3
Offer manifest disclosure options and apply latent provenance disclosures to AI-generated or AI-altered image, video, and audio content when technically feasible and reasonable.
Timing: from_2026-08-02
- transparency→ vendorCal. Bus. & Prof. Code § 22757.3.1
Large online platforms must detect compliant provenance data, disclose available system provenance data to users, permit user inspection, and not knowingly strip compliant provenance data or digital signatures.
Timing: from_2027-01-01
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