Transparency towards the user
Must the user be told the answer comes from a machine, and must the content be labelled?
EU
AI-förordningen
art. 50
The person interacting with the system must be informed, and synthetic content must be marked machine-readable.
- Deadline
- Before the service is made available to the public
- Penalty
- Up to EUR 15 million or three percent of global turnover
- Supervision
- Nationell marknadskontrollmyndighet
- Read
- 2026-08-22
United States
Federal Trade Commission Act
15 U.S.C. § 45
No general labelling duty. A claim about what the model does must be true and substantiated, otherwise it is a deceptive practice.
- Deadline
- Ongoing, for as long as the processing continues
- Penalty
- Order and civil penalty for deceptive or unfair practice
- Supervision
- Federal Trade Commission
- Read
- 2026-08-22
China
Measures for the Labelling of AI-Generated Synthetic Content
art. 4 och 5
Generated content must carry both a visible label and a label in the file metadata.
- Deadline
- From 1 September 2025
- Penalty
- Order to rectify, warning, suspension of the service and a fine
- Supervision
- Cyberspace Administration of China
- Read
- 2026-08-22
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Register version crossover-v1.0.0 · Read 2026-08-22
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