Label AI-generated content
Petitioners ask the federal government to require that any online content created wholly or partly by artificial intelligence and distributed by individuals, businesses, organizations, governments, or political parties be clearly identified as AI-generated.
Why we would sign this petition
- It would make AI-generated material visible, helping people distinguish authentic from synthetic content and reducing the chance of being deceived by fraud or disinformation.
- It offers extra protection for vulnerable groups (seniors, children, teenagers) who the petition says are easier targets of online predators and scams.
- It would place responsibility on content creators and distributors to label AI outputs, creating a basis for enforcement and deterrence against malicious uses.
Why we wouldn’t sign this petition
- Defining scope, enforcing labels and policing online content would be legally and administratively difficult and potentially costly for governments.
- Labels could be evaded, falsified or inconsistently applied, so malicious actors might avoid detection and limits on harm may be limited.
- Mandatory labeling could chill legitimate uses, impose burdens on small creators or public bodies, and slow beneficial innovation and content production.
The summary and both sets of reasons are AI-generated from the petition and given equal weight. Claims are the petitioners’ own; consult the official record for the full text.
Official petition
Petition to the Prime Minister Due to the enormously popular increased use of Artificial Intelligence to create various online content as a tool for productivity, so has its intended use for malicious intent; As a direct result of Artificial Intelligence's almost limitless capability to create, this same capability is being used to very easily compromise Canadians in some way so as to put them into some extremely vulnerable, dangerous and intentionally exploitable situations; Unfortunately, all Canadians, particularly those who are most vulnerable such as senior citizens, youth such as children and teenagers, are easy targets for online money fraud schemes, sexual predators and those promoting mis/mal and disinformation to promote harmful propaganda; and Online crimes are very easily successful due to the majority of Canadians being easily fooled because they cannot determine genuine online content versus artificially generated online content. We, the undersigned, citizens of Canada, call upon the Prime Minister to construct a law that all online content created in part or as a whole by use of any Artificial Intelligence platform for the intended use to be distributed or posted online by individual citizens, commercial entities, organizations, all levels of municipal, provincial and federal government, all political parties and all others, must be identified in some way as such (in a manner to be decided by the Canadian federal government) to promote better protection via awareness for Canadians so as to avoid falling prey to such malicious intended uses of Artificial Intelligence predators.
Government response
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