Requires disclosures for synthetic media in political communications, including AI-generated content labels and tamper-evident digital provenance. Imposes penalties for violations. Considers AI use in crimes as an aggravating sentencing factor. Effective May 1, 2024; sentencing provisions effective July 1, 2024.
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This is a binding state statute enacted by the Utah Legislature with mandatory disclosure requirements, civil penalties for non-compliance, and aggravating sentencing factors for criminal offenses involving AI.
The document has good coverage of approximately 5-6 subdomains, with strong focus on malicious actors (4.1 disinformation/surveillance, 4.3 fraud/manipulation), misinformation (3.1 false information, 3.2 information pollution), and governance (6.5 governance failure through regulatory measures). Coverage is concentrated in misinformation, malicious use, and governance domains.
The document primarily governs the Information sector (media, broadcasting, digital communications) and Public Administration excluding National Security (political campaigns, elections). It applies to political communications using AI-generated content.
The document primarily addresses the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, focusing on disclosure requirements for deployed synthetic media in political communications and ongoing monitoring through digital provenance. It does not substantially cover earlier stages like planning, data collection, or model development.
The document explicitly defines and regulates artificial intelligence, generative artificial intelligence, synthetic audio media, and synthetic visual media. It does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, task-specific AI, foundation models, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.
Utah Legislature
The document is a state legislative bill enacted by the Utah Legislature, as indicated in the opening clause.
courts; Board of Pardons and Parole; sentencing judges
Courts have authority to impose civil penalties for violations of disclosure requirements, while sentencing judges and the Board of Pardons and Parole can consider AI use as an aggravating factor in criminal cases.
The document does not specify any monitoring body or oversight mechanism. Enforcement appears to be complaint-driven through civil actions and criminal proceedings.
candidate campaign committees; political action committees; political issues committees; political parties; creators of synthetic media; sponsors of synthetic media
The law targets creators and sponsors of AI-generated synthetic media used in political communications, as well as any person who uses AI to commit or facilitate criminal offenses.
6 subdomains (5 Good, 1 Minimal)