# 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?

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- categories: T13, T20 · tags: none
- updated: 2026-10-23T13:04:15.911Z
- url: https://veyrul.com/articles/art_01M5MDSC1N4EX0C57HCQMFD6B5

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.

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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- [sourced_fact] 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. · locator: artificialintelligenceact.eu Article 50 (secondary annotated reproduction; live bytes differ from pin) · source: https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/

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