{"id":214755,"date":"2026-05-17T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T04:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/korean-bill-seeks-strict-watermark-mandate-on-ai-generated-content\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T01:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T05:50:11","slug":"korean-bill-seeks-strict-watermark-mandate-on-ai-generated-content","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/17\/korean-bill-seeks-strict-watermark-mandate-on-ai-generated-content\/","title":{"rendered":"Korean bill seeks strict watermark mandate on AI-generated content"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/business\/tech-science\/20260517\/korean-bill-seeks-strict-watermark-mandate-on-ai-generated-content\">Korean bill seeks strict watermark mandate on AI-generated content<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/business\/tech-science\/20260517\/korean-bill-seeks-strict-watermark-mandate-on-ai-generated-content\">https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/business\/tech-science\/20260517\/korean-bill-seeks-strict-watermark-mandate-on-ai-generated-content<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-17 00:58:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.koreatimes.co.kr\">www.koreatimes.co.kr<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Deepfake Detection and AI Safety<\/strong>: On October 23, 2025, Science and ICT Minister Bae Kyung-hoon visits the Korea Artificial Intelligence Safety Institute to understand &#8220;deepfake detection and AI agent safety evaluation&#8221; efforts.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Proposal for Watermarking AI Content<\/strong>: Lawmakers, including Rep. Kim Dai-sik, introduce a bill to amend Korea\u2019s AI Basic Law mandating watermarks on AI-generated content to improve transparency.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Current Gaps in Transparency Rules<\/strong>: The current AI law requires AI service providers to notify users about highly realistic AI-generated content, but does not specify format or placement, leading to loss of these notices in repackaged content.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Proposal\u2019s Focus on Watermarks<\/strong>: The new bill proposes embedding &#8220;codes, letters or symbols&#8221; directly into AI content to ensure these notices remain attached throughout edits, sharing, and downloading.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Criminalization of Tampering with Watermarks<\/strong>: The bill would penalize those who damage, forge or alter watermarks with penalties of up to two years in prison or a fine of up to 20 million won ($13,500).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Korean bill seeks strict watermark mandate on AI-generated content https:\/\/www.koreatimes.co.kr\/business\/tech-science\/20260517\/korean-bill-seeks-strict-watermark-mandate-on-ai-generated-content Publish Date: 2026-05-17 00:58:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":214758,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/newsimg.koreatimes.co.kr\/2026\/05\/17\/1e2ef971-c94b-4a34-be59-0d992c597146.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-214755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214755"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":214761,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214755\/revisions\/214761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}