What does Article 50 of the EU AI Act say about marking synthetic audio and disclosing audio deep fakes, who is addressed, and what exceptions does the text state?

As reproduced on a secondary site, AI Act Article 50 requires providers of systems generating synthetic audio/image/video/text to mark outputs machine-readably (except assistive standard editing), requires deployers to disclose deep fakes, and limits that disclosure for evidently artistic or fictional works to a form that does not hamper enjoyment. Curator qualifications: Texts read 2026-10-22; not legal advice; no jurisdictional analysis. Secondary reproduction; EUR-Lex official text not read (unavailable to producer); amendment markers unexplained on the page. Application dates subject to amendment per page markers. Limitations: Texts read 2026-10-22; not legal advice; no jurisdictional analysis. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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