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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.

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ch. 21, Provenance, training data and frontier developers
Chapters
ch. 21, AI Laws Worldwide
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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.

Latent disclosure: mentions per chapter1 mention of the term across 1 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Other chapterCross-referenced, not named08 Regulatory Map: 1 mention08 Regulatory Map121 AI Laws Worldwide0No mentions in the other 21 chaptersSource: the Body of Knowledgev0.5.0
Latent disclosure: mentions per chapter1 mention of the term across 1 of the 23 chapters of the Body of Knowledge; the chapters the glossary cross-references are drawn solid.Other chapterCross-referenced, not named000102030405060708 Regulatory Map: 1 mention1081011121314151617181920212223Source: the Body of Knowledge v0.5.0
Mentions per chapter How often each chapter names the term, with the chapters the glossary cross-references drawn solid. The longest bar is where to read the term in use; bars spread across many chapters mark a term that runs through the discipline.
Mentions as a table
Mentions of Latent disclosure per chapter
ChapterMentionsCross-referenced
00 Preface0No
01 Definition0No
02 Why Now0No
03 Values & Principles0No
04 The Stack0No
05 Patterns0No
06 The Role0No
07 Maturity Model0No
08 Regulatory Map1No
10 Reading List0No
11 AI Defined0No
12 Governance Program0No
13 Risk Management0No
14 Development0No
15 Deployment0No
16 Fairness & XAI0No
17 Incidents0No
18 EU AI Act0No
19 Privacy & AI0No
20 Existing Law0No
21 AI Laws Worldwide0Yes
22 Principles & Standards0No
23 AI Agents0No
Latent disclosure: related terms and patternsThe term at the centre; related terms on solid edges, the terms it is contrasted with on dashed edges, and the patterns that use it most in the colour of their layer.RelatedContrastLatent disclosureRelated terms (2)Frontier model · RelatedFrontier modelTransparency · RelatedTransparencyContrast with (1)Watermarking · ContrastWatermarking
Latent disclosure: related terms and patternsThe term at the centre; related terms on solid edges, the terms it is contrasted with on dashed edges, and the patterns that use it most in the colour of their layer.RelatedContrastRelated terms (2)Frontier model · RelatedFrontier modelTransparency · RelatedTransparencyContrast with (1)Watermarking · ContrastWatermarkingLatent disclosure
The term's neighbourhood Terms related to this one on solid edges, terms it is often confused with on dashed edges, and the patterns that use it most in the colour of their layer. Follow a dashed edge to check the distinction before you use either term.
Neighbourhood as a table
Neighbourhood of Latent disclosure
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  • 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}
}