Korean bill seeks strict watermark mandate on AI-generated content

Lawmakers are seeking to tighten Korea’s new artificial intelligence (AI) rules with a bill that would mandate watermarks on AI-generated content and criminalize their removal, in a bid to close what they call a “blind spot” in transparency rules. The bill, introduced last week by Rep. Kim Dai-sik and nine other legislators of the main opposition People Power Party, seeks to amend the AI Basic Law (officially, the Framework Act on the Development of AI and the Creation of a Foundation for Trust), which took effect earlier this year. The current law requires AI service providers to notify users whenever highly realistic audio, images or video have been created by an AI system. However, it does not specify where that notice should be placed or what form it should take, so most services satisfy the rule only with a small caption or icon inside their own interface. But once secondary creators screenshot, crop or repackage that content, the label is often removed — and under the current law, those downstream actors are not clearly treated as violators for removing it. This gap allowsWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times