Generates text with AI, in Canada
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Copyright Act, fair dealingsince 1 line
R.S.C., 1985, c. C-42, s. 29 · Read the law's page
- A use of a copyrighted work must fall within an enumerated fair-dealing purpose (research, private study, education, parody or satire, or another statutory dealing elsewhere in the Act) to avoid infringement; collecting or reproducing text to train a generative model is not itself an enumerated purpose.
Bill C-34, Safe Social Media Act (synthetic content labelling and chatbot transparency)proposed2 lines
Bill C-34, An Act to enact the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, 45th Parliament, 1st Session, ss. 37, 53(a) · Read the law's page
- Would require the operator of a regulated social media service, to the extent that it is reasonable for the operator to do so, to implement adequate measures to label, as synthetic content, any synthetic content accessible on the service that meets the criteria set by regulation.
- Would require a regulated AI chatbot service to implement measures adequate to mitigate the risk of the chatbot posing as a human being or otherwise being deceptive about being an artificial intelligence system.
Bill C-36, Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Actproposed1 line
Bill C-36, An Act to enact the Protecting Privacy and Consumer Data Act, to amend the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act and to make amendments to other Acts, 45th Parliament, 1st Session · Read the law's page
- Would require organizations to be transparent about their use of automated decision making for significant decisions about individuals, set higher standards for handling children's information, and obtain meaningful consent supported by plain-language explanations.
Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence, signed by Canadaproposed2 lines
Council of Europe Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law, Council of Europe Treaty Series No. 225, opened for signature ; signed by Canada on , subject to ratification · Read the law's page
- Each Party must adopt or maintain measures for the identification, assessment, prevention and mitigation of risks posed by AI systems, considering their actual and potential impacts on human rights, democracy and the rule of law; an app operator is reached through the measures its Party adopts.
- Each Party must seek to ensure, as appropriate for the context, that persons interacting with an AI system are notified that they are interacting with such a system rather than with a human, and must adopt or maintain measures for accessible and effective remedies, as far as its international obligations require and its domestic legal system allows, including measures to ensure that information about an AI system is sufficient for affected persons to contest a decision made or substantially informed by its use.