# AI business operators must notify users in advance that a product or service runs on high-impact or generative AI

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of a Foundation for Trust (AI Basic Act, Act No. 20676)
- **Jurisdiction**: South Korea
- **Category**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Applies from**: 2026-01-22
- **Provision**: Article 31(1)

## What the duty requires

An AI business operator that provides a product or service operated by high-impact AI or by generative AI must notify users in advance that the product or service is based on such AI. The notice is owed before use and is the entry point of the Act's transparency chapter; failure to give it can attract an administrative fine after a corrective order.

## What an organisation does about it

Add a plain-language AI notice at onboarding or first use for any product that relies on high-impact or generative AI.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI interaction and use disclosure notices (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-interaction-and-use-disclosure
- AI system inventory and classification (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-system-inventory

## Parent instrument

- Framework Act on the Development of Artificial Intelligence and Establishment of a Foundation for Trust (AI Basic Act, Act No. 20676)
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/south-korea-framework-act-on-the-development-of-artificial-intelligence-and-establishment-of-a-foundation-for
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/south-korea-framework-act-on-the-development-of-artificial-intelligence-and-establishment-of-a-foundation-for.md

## Provenance

- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/south-korea-ai-basic-act-art-31-advance-notice-of-high-impact-and-generative-ai
- **Official source**: https://www.law.go.kr/lsInfoP.do?lsiSeq=268543
- **Provision**: Article 31(1)
- **Review status**: pending review
- **Confidence**: medium
- **Facts last confirmed**: never confirmed against the official source
- **Retrieved**: 2026-09-24
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

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