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European rules requiring people to be told when they are dealing with artificial intelligence will begin applying on Sunday, bringing chatbots, deepfakes and synthetic public-interest content under a new disclosure regime.
Providers of interactive AI systems must design them to inform users that they are interacting with a machine unless this is obvious from the circumstances. Providers of systems that generate or manipulate text, audio, images or video must also apply machine-readable markings that allow synthetic content to be detected.
Separate duties fall on organisations deploying the technology. Deepfakes must be visibly disclosed, while AI-generated or manipulated text published to inform the public must be labelled when it has not undergone human review or editorial control. People must also be informed when they are exposed to emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems.
The rules matter to more than technology companies. Publishers, advertisers, political organisations, retailers and public bodies may be deployers even when they did not build the model. The legal question is therefore not only what a system can produce, but how its output is presented to the public.
The Commission has published guidelines and a voluntary code of practice intended to establish common methods for marking and labelling content. The code does not replace the law. Its practical value will depend on whether the marks survive editing, compression and republication across platforms.
The start date should not be described as the full AI Act entering into force. Brussels has extended the timetable for high-risk systems under its AI Omnibus. Stand-alone high-risk systems are now due to face the relevant obligations from December 2027, while systems embedded in regulated products have longer.
That split creates an unusual enforcement landscape. Transparency duties for consumer-facing and generative systems are becoming applicable while some of the most demanding rules for employment, education, critical infrastructure and regulated products remain in transition.
The distinction is important for compliance teams. A company cannot assume that postponement of high-risk requirements delays every part of the legislation. Nor should users assume that an AI label means a system has passed a wider safety or fundamental-rights assessment.
Enforcement will also be divided. National market-surveillance authorities retain important responsibilities, while the EU AI Office has powers in relation to general-purpose models and certain systems built upon them. Cross-border cases may test how quickly these bodies exchange information and agree which authority should lead.
EU Today reported in June that the bloc had delayed high-risk obligations while attempting to reduce regulatory overlap. The 2 August milestone shows that simplification did not stop the whole rulebook. It created several regulatory clocks running at once.
For businesses, the safest immediate question is a narrow one: does an AI system communicate directly with people or produce content that could be mistaken for human or authentic material? If it does, the transparency provisions may already matter, irrespective of when the high-risk regime reaches full operation.
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