Legal requirement Transparency and disclosure European Union Partially applicable

Disclose AI interaction and label synthetic content

Under EU AI Act, Article 50

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What does it require?

Providers must ensure AI systems intended to interact with people inform them they are dealing with AI unless obvious; providers of systems generating synthetic audio, image, video or text must mark output in a machine-readable, detectable format; deployers of emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems must inform exposed persons; deployers must disclose deepfakes and AI-generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest, subject to exceptions.

Practical action

Implement provenance marking (for example content credentials) and user-facing AI disclosures in product UX.

Who does it apply to?

Providers and deployers of chatbots, generative systems, emotion recognition and biometric categorisation, whatever the risk tier.

Applies from:

Evidence examples

  • Disclosure and watermarking design record (document)

Framework mappings

Original editorial crosswalks. They cite clause numbers only and reproduce no standard text; confidence reflects how direct the mapping is.

Framework mappings
FrameworkReferenceNoteConfidence
ISO/IEC 42001:2023Annex A control on communication with interested partiesOriginal editorial mapping.medium
NIST AI RMF 1.0GOVERN 4.x; NIST AI 600-1 content provenance suggestionsGenerative AI profile guidance on provenance.medium

Similar obligations in other instruments

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