The AI Act marking grace period and its limits
One Article 50 duty got a runway to 2 December 2026. Here is exactly which duties had no runway at all and were binding from day one.
One Article 50 duty got a runway to 2 December 2026. Here is exactly which duties had no runway at all and were binding from day one.
General-purpose AI providers have published training-content summaries since August 2025. Six questions that separate a useful one from a decorative one.
Providers mark output in machine-readable form; deployers label deepfakes visibly on first exposure. Here is which role you occupy on a hosted generator.
Evidently artistic, satirical or fictional work gets a lighter disclosure under Article 50. Here is exactly where that lighter version stops applying.
Roughly 190 organisations signed the transparency code finalised on 10 June 2026. The Article 50 duties beneath it bind signatories and non-signatories alike.
The EU's marking Code of Practice finalised three official disclosure icons. Where they belong on a video, and why they stack with platform labels.
EU Article 50 and California's AB 853 both went operative on 2 August 2026. What each asks of a creator selling into both markets, and the gap neither closes.
Article 50 of the EU AI Act took effect August 2, 2026. A plain guide to what counts as a deepfake, when disclosure is required, and a labeling checklist.
EU AI Act Article 50 now requires machine-readable marking of AI content. It binds the model providers, not your export pipeline — which is exactly the gap.
The EU's Code of Practice on AI transparency covers two very different groups under one document. Knowing which one you are decides what you can skip.
A tool you've used since before August 2026 has a separate compliance clock running until December. Here's what changes, and what doesn't wait.