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This bill, known as the Consumer Data Protection Act, mandates that social media platforms and "deployers" (entities that make artificial intelligence systems available to users) must create "interoperability interfaces." These interfaces will allow users to share their "social graph data" (information about their connections and interactions on a social media platform) and "contextual data" (information provided to an artificial intelligence system over time, like prompts and conversation history) with other platforms or AI systems as the user chooses. The bill defines "artificial intelligence system" as a machine learning-based system that infers outputs from inputs, and "general-purpose generative artificial intelligence model" as a versatile AI system capable of performing many tasks. To facilitate this sharing, platforms and deployers must use an "open protocol" (a free and publicly available technical standard), ensure continuous data sharing on reasonable terms, and implement security measures. The bill also clarifies that platforms and deployers are not required to share internal inferences, trade secrets, or data in proprietary formats where no open standard exists, and they must not import data and treat it differently than their own. This new requirement will take effect on July 1, 2027.

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https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB85