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Transparency obligations
Also called: disclosure duties, labelling requirements
Even outside high-risk, the AI Act requires transparency in specific cases — telling people when they're interacting with an AI system, and marking synthetic (AI-generated or manipulated) media such as deepfakes.
These duties reach ordinary chatbots and content tools, not just heavy industrial systems. Disclosure and content-marking are becoming baseline expectations, legally and reputationally.
General transparency as a value. Here it's a specific legal duty in defined situations, with its own timelines.
- Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (AI Act)Official Journal of the European Union (EUR-Lex) · 2024-07-12
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