HouseH.R. 8893119th Congress
Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act
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[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
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[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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