Activities / What code does

Generates content with AI

generates_content

Your app uses artificial intelligence (AI) to produce text, images, audio, or video, rather than only publishing what a person wrote or recorded.

  • scope code
  • in the registry since 1.0
  • 637 laws in 192 jurisdictions name it

What triggers it

The lint's definition. It makes text, images, audio or video with an AI model that reaches its users or the public. Somebody else's model counts; a tool whose output only its own team reads is not this.

This covers an AI copywriting tool, an image generator, and a voice clone used in an advertisement.

What does not

Content a person wrote, that your app only formats or spell-checks, does not count.

Often confused with Deploys a chatbot and Trains models.

The law it brings into scope

The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.

Area of lawLawsJurisdictions
AI law

Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk.

318 132
Privacy law

Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach.

203 108
Cybersecurity law

Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.

91 67
Product and AI liability law

Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.

25 23
Reuse law

Reproduce other publishers' content only as far as an exception or a license allows.

6 4
Content moderation law

Act on notice of unlawful content, explain moderation decisions, and report on them.

2 1
Scraping law

Stay within computer-access law, a site's terms, and the copyright in what is copied.

1 1

Counterparties that usually come with it

  • a model provider whose API writes the output

A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about, never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.

In a declaration

A library or framework that makes this possible enables it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.

For a library

activities: - id: generates_content mentioned: enables enabled: requires_configuration where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence>

For an application

activities: - id: generates_content mentioned: performs enabled: by_default where: [<the module that carries it>] note: <one sentence: what it does, and the kind of law it attracts>

History

In the registry since version 1.0, .

In the glossary: Generates content with AI.

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