EU AI Act · Article 50 transparency

Find out which AI surfacesyou can disclose your way past.

A pre-publish readiness audit for the EU AI Act's Article 50 transparency rules. List every AI surface you put in front of people — chatbots, AI images and audio, deepfakes, AI-written public-interest text — and get a clear verdict per surface and for the whole set, with one hard gate for any synthetic surface passed off as real.

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Not legal advice. This is a readiness aid for EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations, not a watermarking or detection tool and not a high-risk (Annex III) assessment — that regime's deadline is 2 December 2027. Effective dates (50(1)/50(4) on 2 Aug 2026; 50(2) marking on 2 Dec 2026 under the May 2026 Omnibus grace) are current as of June 2026 and may change. Confirm your surfaces and exemptions with counsel.

Five deliverables · runnable
Article 50 readiness engine
py
Disclosure Scorecard workbook
xlsx
Surface-Mapping Playbook
docx
Disclosure Fix-It Runbook
docx
Worked 6-surface sample
csv
Works alongside
Voice & Likeness Gate · UGC Ad Compliance · EU AI Act Readiness
01.The Problem

Article 50 lands in August 2026 — and most teams can't see their own surfaces.

2 Aug 2026

Article 50 transparency obligations apply — chatbot, deepfake, and public-interest-text disclosure.

2 Dec 2026

Machine-readable marking deadline after the four-month Omnibus grace; new systems still target August.

2 Dec 2027

The separate high-risk (Annex III) deadline — not August 2026. This kit keeps the two apart.

The trap isn't the deadline — it's inventory. A team that has wired AI into a support chatbot, ad imagery, a cloned voiceover, and a synthetic spokesperson rarely has one list of those surfaces, let alone a per-surface read on which disclosures the law expects. This kit produces that list, and the verdict.

02.See It Work

One deceptive surface sinks an otherwise-clean set.

Live demo · edit any surface

Support chatbot on /helpchatbot
CLEAR
AI product images (catalog)synthetic image
CLEAR
AI voiceover on explainersynthetic audio
CLEAR
Spokesperson "deepfake" addeepfake
NOT COMPLIANTdeceptive
AI-drafted market commentarypublic-interest text
CLEAR
AI-generated social videosynthetic video
FIX

Set verdict

NOT COMPLIANT

deceptive-surface gate FIRED on S4

Surfaces

4 clear · 1 fix · 1 not compliant (67% clear)

Fix first: Spokesperson "deepfake" ad

Each surface's verdict is its weakest applicable obligation — no average can launder a missing disclosure. One synthetic surface presented as real, with no mark (and, for a deepfake, no label), trips the gate and sinks the whole set, however clean the rest is.

03.The Engine, Run

Verbatim output on the shipped 6-surface sample.

Five of six surfaces read CLEAR or FIX and the set is 67% clear — and yet the verdict is NOT COMPLIANT, because one unlabeled spokesperson deepfake presented as real trips the deceptive-surface gate. The headline tells the truth a percentage would have hidden.

AI DISCLOSURE & LABELING READINESS  —  Article 50 (as of 2026-06-23)
================================================================
[S1] Support chatbot on /help  (chatbot)  ->  CLEAR
        50(1)  AI-interaction disclosure                  present          CLEAR
[S2] AI product images (catalog)  (synthetic_image)  ->  CLEAR
        50(2)  Machine-readable synthetic-content mark    present          CLEAR
[S3] AI voiceover on explainer  (synthetic_audio)  ->  CLEAR
        50(2)  Machine-readable synthetic-content mark    present          CLEAR
[S4] Spokesperson "deepfake" ad (founder likeness)  (deepfake)  ->  NOT COMPLIANT  <-- DECEPTIVE
        50(2)  Machine-readable synthetic-content mark    missing          NOT COMPLIANT
        50(4)  Deepfake disclosure label                  missing          NOT COMPLIANT
[S5] AI-drafted market commentary post  (public_interest_text)  ->  CLEAR
        50(4)  Public-interest-text disclosure            editorial_exempt CLEAR
[S6] AI-generated social video  (synthetic_video)  ->  FIX
        50(2)  Machine-readable synthetic-content mark    partial          FIX
----------------------------------------------------------------
Surfaces: 4 CLEAR / 1 FIX / 1 NOT COMPLIANT (67% clear)
Deceptive-surface gate: FIRED on S4
Base set verdict (pre-gate): NOT COMPLIANT
SET VERDICT: NOT COMPLIANT
Fix first: S4

Readiness aid for EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations — not legal
advice, and not a watermarking/detection tool. Article 50 transparency is
separate from the high-risk (Annex III) rules (deadline 2 Dec 2027); this
kit asserts no August-2026 high-risk deadline. Confirm with counsel.
04.The Standard

Three rules that keep the verdict honest.

Categorical, not averaged

A disclosure is present or it is not. Each surface's verdict is its weakest applicable obligation — no average that can launder a missing one.

One dispositive gate

Any synthetic or deepfake surface presented as real with no mark — and, for a deepfake, no label — forces the whole set NOT COMPLIANT, full stop.

Dates plan, never grade

Effective dates are reported so you know how long you have. A deadline never decides your verdict — a present disclosure is compliant today.

05.What This Is — And Isn't

A readiness map, not a watermarker and not a lawyer.

It is
  • A per-surface audit against the four Article 50 transparency obligations.
  • A set-level readiness verdict with one hard deceptive-surface gate.
  • A runnable engine plus a workbook that reproduces it, line for line.
  • A planning view of effective dates, with the Omnibus grace period flagged.
It isn't
  • A watermarking or detection tool — it doesn't mark or scan content.
  • Legal advice, or a substitute for counsel on your specific surfaces.
  • A high-risk (Annex III) assessment — that's a separate 2 Dec 2027 regime.
  • A guarantee of compliance; the Code of Practice is still being finalized.

Not legal advice. This is a readiness aid for EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations, not a watermarking or detection tool and not a high-risk (Annex III) assessment — that regime's deadline is 2 December 2027. Effective dates (50(1)/50(4) on 2 Aug 2026; 50(2) marking on 2 Dec 2026 under the May 2026 Omnibus grace) are current as of June 2026 and may change. Confirm your surfaces and exemptions with counsel.

06.Who It's For

Teams shipping AI content into the EU market.

  • · Marketing and content teams using AI imagery, voice, or video.
  • · Founders and ops leads who own an AI chatbot or assistant.
  • · Agencies preparing client surfaces ahead of the August 2026 dates.
  • · Compliance owners who need a per-surface inventory and verdict.
  • · Anyone publishing AI-written public-interest text in the EU.
  • · Teams who keep conflating Article 50 with the high-risk deadline.
08.Common Questions

The honest answers.

The core obligations apply 2 August 2026: Article 50(1) AI-interaction disclosure (e.g. a chatbot must say it's AI), and Article 50(4) deepfake labels and AI-written public-interest-text disclosure. The Article 50(2) machine-readable marking of synthetic content has a four-month grace to 2 December 2026 under the May 2026 Omnibus agreement — though new systems still target August. This kit reports those dates so you can plan, but a deadline never decides your verdict: a disclosure that's present today is compliant today. Dates are current as of June 2026 and the Omnibus was provisional at writing — confirm with counsel before you rely on them. Not legal advice.

See every AI surface.
Disclose the ones that need it.

One purchase, lifetime access, 12 months of updates as the Article 50 Code of Practice settles. $79, once.

Not legal advice. A readiness aid for EU AI Act Article 50 transparency obligations; not a watermarking tool and not a high-risk (Annex III) assessment. Dates current as of June 2026 and may change — confirm with counsel.

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