Provider marking and publisher disclosure
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 distinguishes providers' machine-readable marking duties under Article 50(2) from deployers' disclosure duties under Article 50(4). A voluntary badge or HTML meta tag does not establish that either obligation has been fulfilled.
The European Commission FAQ states that Article 50 applies from 2 August 2026. The limited grace period to 2 December 2026 concerns provider marking and detection for systems already on the market before 2 August, rather than a general postponement of all disclosure obligations.
Review of public-interest text
For AI-generated or manipulated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest, human review or editorial control together with editorial responsibility can affect the disclosure obligation. The Commission distinguishes substantive review from superficial spelling or grammar checks.
Levels 3 and 4 require meaningful review in their definitions. That is relevant context; it does not establish a legal exemption. Level 2 does not automatically prove review, and Level 5 does not itself determine whether the publication falls within the legal scope.
Deepfakes and editing
The text-specific review exception does not provide a blanket exemption for deepfakes. Assess the content and the relevant rules separately. Likewise, the standard-editing exception in Article 50(2) is about the actual function and output, rather than a level number.
The Commission's source-code scope guidance concerns provider marking under Article 50(2). It should not be restated as a universal exemption for any publication containing code.
Voluntary tools
The Commission publishes a Code of Practice on transparency and EU labelling icons. AI Usage Scale's suggested icon mappings are illustrative. They are not official equivalences, and the scale is not an approved compliance tool.
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