Facilitation of development of standards for content provenance information and detection of synthetic content and synthetically-modified content

(a) In general The Under Secretary shall establish a public-private partnership to facilitate the development of standards regarding content provenance information technologies and the detection of synthetic content and synthetically-modified content, including with respect to the following: (1) Facilitating the development of guidelines and voluntary, consensus-based standards and best practices for watermarking, content provenance information, synthetic content and synthetically-modified content detection, including for images, audio, video, text, and multimodal content, the use of data to train artificial intelligence systems, and such other matters relating to transparency of synthetic media as the Under Secretary considers appropriate. (2) Facilitating the development of guidelines, metrics, and practices to evaluate and assess tools to detect and label synthetic content, synthetically-modified content, and non-synthetic content, including artificial intelligence red-teaming and artificial intelligence blue-teaming. (3) Establishing grand challenges and prizes in coordination with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the National Science Foundation to detect and label synthetic content, synthetically-modified content, and non-synthetic content and to develop cybersecurity and other countermeasures to defend against tampering with detection tools, watermarks, or content provenance information. (b) Consultation In developing the standards described in subsection (a), the Under Secretary shall consult with the Register of Copyrights and the Director.