What is the COPIED Act, a new US bill to identify source of AI-generated deepfakes?

In an effort to combat the rise of AI-generated deepfakes, US lawmakers on Thursday, July 11, introduced a bill that would require online platforms to let users tag such synthetic content with information about its origin. It is just one of many transparency guidelines proposed in the bill that looks to make the detection and authentication of AI-generated content much easier.

Titled as the Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Bill or COPIED Act, the draft bipartisan bill has been authored by Maria Cantwell and Martin Heinrich, US senators from the Democratic Party, as well as Marsha Blackburn, a Republican Party senator.