I have a household full of Swifties. We talk about this at the dinner table.
I think you've raised a great example, actually, of where existing legislation could be more purpose-built to solve a problem like that. It is already illegal to share intimate images without consent. I think adding clarification in the Criminal Code to ensure that this covers AI-generated images is probably a more effective vehicle for addressing that particular issue. I think Canada could act on that very quickly and very efficiently.
The industry is working pretty hard to ensure that it is much easier to detect AI-generated content. Among the commitments we made in July at the White House, we made a commitment to develop watermarking and other tools to detect generated content. By November, we'd already released a watermarking tool within our tightened AI model. The industry is also trying to move very quickly to address some of these harms and is obviously collaborating to make sure that there are laws in place to address them, but there's also what we can do on the technical side to help ensure that those images are detected quickly.
The copyright question is a very hot topic, and the government has had consultation on this. From a policy perspective, I think there are two sides to consider. I think there's the AI training and the data input. How do we allow for greater assurance that we have great data to train models? There are techniques, too, on the output side to ensure that we suppress copyrighted content. It is possible to ensure that models have suppression techniques to ensure that copyrighted content is not on the output side of the model
It's good to separate the discussion into understanding the two aspects of AI and ensure that we have good models that reflect Canadian content as well. I think we should think about the fact that most available models are dominated by either the Chinese language or English. There's a lack of, for example, French-language content, but we have other minority languages in this country as well. We want to make sure that we permit appropriate content use for training models to ensure that we have access to Canadian-specific large language models when we interact with them.