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Under California's AI Transparency Act, provenance information embedded in AI-generated image, video or audio so that it persists and can be read by a detection tool, as opposed to a visible label shown to the user 1.

Developed in
ch. 21, Provenance, training data and frontier developers
Chapters
ch. 21, AI Laws Worldwide
Contrast with
Watermarking
Source
1 numbered reference, listed below

Where it is used

One chapter of the Body of Knowledge uses the term. Each link opens the first section that does.

  • Frontier model

    A general-purpose model at or near the capability frontier.

  • Transparency

    In NIST's framing, how far information about an AI system and its outputs reaches the people who interact with it: what happened.

Sources

  1. [1] AB-853, California AI Transparency Act (amends SB 942; chaptered 2025-10-13; operative 2026-08-02; latent disclosures in generated content). California Legislative Information. 2025-10-13. https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB853 (verified: primary)

Definitions of legal terms paraphrase the cited text, which governs. Dated statements are as of .

Cite this term

García Aibar, J. (2026). Latent disclosure. In AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis & Body of Knowledge (v0.5.0), Glossary. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22956197. https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/latent-disclosure. CC BY 4.0

BibTeX

@misc{aige2026latentdisclosure,
  author  = {Jorge García Aibar},
  title   = {{Latent disclosure}},
  note    = {Glossary, AI Governance Engineering: The Thesis \& Body of Knowledge, version 0.5.0},
  year    = {2026},
  doi     = {10.5281/zenodo.22956197},
  url     = {https://aigovernanceengineer.com/glossary/latent-disclosure}
}