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Sec. 3 · S. 1396

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In this title: (1) Artificial intelligence The term artificial intelligence has the meaning given the term in section 5002 of the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401). (2) Artificial intelligence blue-teaming The term artificial intelligence blue-teaming means an effort to conduct operational vulnerability evaluations and provide mitigation techniques to entities who have a need for an independent technical review of the security posture of an artificial intelligence system. (3) Artificial intelligence red-teaming The term artificial intelligence red-teaming means structured adversarial testing efforts of an artificial intelligence system to identify risks, flaws, and vulnerabilities of the artificial intelligence system, such as harmful outputs from the system, unforeseen or undesirable system behaviors, limitations, or potential risks associated with the misuse of the system. (4) Content provenance information The term content provenance information means state-of-the-art, machine-readable information documenting the origin and history of a piece of digital content, such as an image, a video, audio, or text. (5) Covered content The term covered content means a digital representation, such as text, an image, or audio or video content, of any work of authorship described in section 102 of title 17, United States Code. (6) Covered platform The term covered platform means a website, internet application, or mobile application available to users in the United States, including a social networking site, video sharing service, search engine, or content aggregation service available to users in the United States, that either— (A) generates at least $50,000,000 in annual revenue; or (B) had at least 25,000,000 monthly active users for not fewer than 3 of the 12 months immediately preceding any conduct by the covered platform in violation of this Act. (7) Deepfake The term deepfake means synthetic content or synthetically-modified content that— (A) appears authentic to a reasonable person; and (B) creates a false understanding or impression. (8) Director The term Director means the Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. (9) Synthetic content The term synthetic content means information, including works of human authorship such as images, videos, audio clips, and text, that has been wholly generated by algorithms, including by artificial intelligence. (10) Synthetically-modified content The term synthetically-modified content means information, including works of human authorship such as images, videos, audio clips, and text, that has been significantly modified by algorithms, including by artificial intelligence. (11) Under Secretary The term Under Secretary means the Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology. (12) Watermarking The term watermarking means the act of embedding information that is intended to be difficult to remove into an output, including an output such as text, an image, an audio, a video, software code, or any other digital content or data, for the purposes of verifying the authenticity of the output or the identity or characteristics of its provenance, modifications, or conveyance

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