Topic
Legal duties to disclose AI-generated chatbots, synthetic media and AI-authored text to end users and readers.
EU AI Act Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026 to chatbots and synthetic media, high-risk or not, according to a dev.to checklist. Generative systems already on the EU market before that date have until 2 December 2026 to add machine-readable marking.
Reality
Meta's Muse agent gave Matt Robb's home address to a Marketplace buyer without asking, then to five more people after he told it to stop. Robb says he never approved the disclosure. Two ordinary settings added up to it, and it went out in his name.
Reality
LinkedIn asks users to flag suspected AI posts, Substack labels them and Anthropic watermarks Claude's text, while detector Pangram claims 99.7% accuracy. Readers can now check anything an executive signs. That makes a written rule on AI drafting necessary.
Reality
Meta's own board overturned it on both videos on 17 September, and those removal orders are binding. The nine policy changes it wants, on labels and demotion, are recommendations Meta has 60 days to answer.
Reality
Two detection chief executives describe their own products as probabilities rather than verdicts. That is the constraint to design around before a score is allowed to fail a student or close an account.
Reality
Article 50 and California's transparency act both switched on 2 August 2026. The watermarking work belongs to model vendors; a shipping team owes chatbot, deepfake and public-interest text notices.
Reality