European Union
EU AI transparency — deepfake disclosure
Article 50 requires deployers of systems generating or manipulating deepfake image, audio, or video to disclose that it was artificially generated or manipulated, with defined exceptions.
- Facts and interpretation
- Profile facts: AI-generated or manipulated + photorealistic + identifiable real personRule interpretation: potential deepfake-related disclosure analysis. The configured rule applies its own terminology and does not change the underlying profile facts.
- Who may need this?
- Media meeting the AI Act deepfake definition and deployed in the EU, subject to role, context, and exceptions.
- When it does not apply
- Law-enforcement and certain artistic, creative, satirical, fictional or analogous contexts have specific treatment.
- Technical requirement
- Disclose artificial generation or manipulation in an appropriate manner.
- What this workspace does
- Can apply a user-selected visible disclosure and surfaces the source for review.
- Limitations
- The app cannot determine whether media meets the legal deepfake definition.
- How to verify
- Review content/context and visually inspect the final media disclosure.
Change history
Version 12026-08-02Initial Article 50 deepfake disclosure reference.