HR-8893 — Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act

YourVoice.Now Summary

Transparency & AccountabilityCivil Liberties

Starts federal work on ways to spot and label AI-made images, video, audio, and text — no company must use them

Transparency & Accountability

Tools to spot AI-made images, video, audio — standards work begins

NIST task forces would help build standards for watermarks, origin data, and digital fingerprints. Websites and apps could use them to label AI content, but nothing makes them.

Labels for AI-written text — standards work begins

The task forces would also help build ways to mark text that AI wrote or heavily changed. Use of these standards would be voluntary.

Civil Liberties

Privacy when sharing files with origin data — guidance considered

Files with origin data can reveal facts about you. The task forces must weigh telling users when they share such data and letting them limit it.

More about this bill

Most people would see no change right away. The bill sets up work on tools to tell real photos, videos, and recordings from ones made by AI. It does not require any company to use those tools. Within 90 days of becoming law, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST, a federal lab that sets technical standards) must form task forces. They would work on watermarks, hidden origin data, and digital fingerprints for AI content. They would also work on ways to label AI-written text. Members would include tech companies, news outlets, artists, unions, and privacy experts. The task forces must also think about guidance so people can see and limit the origin data they share. Each task force reports ideas to NIST within 270 days, then reports to Congress every year for five years.

Congressional Summary

Protecting Consumers from Deceptive AI Act This bill requires the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to establish task forces to support the development of technical standards and guidelines for identifying content created using artificial intelligence (AI). Specifically, the task forces must address (1) identifying and labeling audio, visual, or text-based content created or substantially modified using generative AI; and (2) providing content provenance metadata, watermarking, digital fingerprinting, and other relevant technical measures. (Content provenance is information about the origin and history of digital content.) The task forces must consider issuing guidance for online platforms on storing and displaying content provenance data and metadata in a manner that preserves privacy (e.g., by informing users when they are sharing content that contains content provenance data or metadata). To the extent possible, the output of these task forces should inform the development of technical standards by private, consensus organizations. The task forces must report to NIST within a specified period with recommendations related to relevant technical standards and guidance. They must also periodically report to Congress on their activities.

Legislative Subjects

Advanced technology and technological innovationsAdvisory bodiesComputer security and identity theftComputers and information technologyCongressional oversightConsumer affairsData collection, sharing, protectionDigital mediaGovernment information and archivesGovernment studies and investigations

Details

Congress: 119th
Chamber: House
Status: summarized
Action: Introduced in House
Action Date: 2026-05-19
Date Added: 2026-09-25
Source: Congress.gov →

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