15 U.S.C. § 9202 — NSF support of research on manipulated or synthesized content and information security
submitted 6 years ago by Pub. L. 116-258 to r/title-15-COMMERCE-AND-TRADE · 164 words · no verdicts yet
The NSF Director must support competitive, merit-reviewed research on detecting and understanding manipulated or synthesized content, including technical, social, educational, and interagency research.
The NSF Director, consulting relevant Federal agencies, must support merit-reviewed, competitively awarded research on manipulated or synthesized content and information authenticity. It may include (1) basic research on digital-forensics tools and other ways to verify authenticity and detect such content, including generative-adversarial-network content; (2) basic technical tools such as watermarking for generated media; (3) social and behavioral research, including people’s engagement with the content; (4) public understanding and education about how to judge digital authenticity; and (5) research awards coordinated with agencies and programs including DARPA and IARPA, with coordination enabled by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program. The stray footnote digit in the supplied text is ignored.
The Director of the National Science Foundation, in consultation with other relevant Federal agencies, shall support merit-reviewed and competitively awarded research on manipulated or synthesized content and information authenticity, which may include—
fundamental research on digital forensic tools or other technologies for verifying the authenticity of information and detection of manipulated or synthesized content, including content generated by generative adversarial networks;
fundamental research on technical tools for identifying manipulated or synthesized content, such as watermarking systems for generated media;
social and behavioral research related to manipulated or synthesized content, including human engagement with the content;
research on public understanding and awareness of manipulated and synthesized content, including research on best practices for educating the public to discern authenticity of digital content; and
research awards coordinated with other federal agencies and programs, including the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency,1 with coordination enabled by the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 116–258, § 3, Dec. 23, 2020, 134 Stat. 1151.)
- 2020Enacted · Pub. L. 116-258 · 134 Stat. 1151
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