ComputerWorld.com reported that “Providers and deployers of AI systems: You only have a couple of weeks left until you must explicitly inform users when they are interacting with AI content. To assist in the effort, the European Commission (Commission) has published guidelines to help AI deployers get in line with the AI Act’s transparency obligations, which will begin to go into effect on August 2.” The July 20, 2026 article entitled ” The EU’s AI transparency deadline is weeks away. Is your enterprise ready? (https://www.computerworld.com/article/4199141/the-eus-ai-transparency-deadline-is-weeks-away-is-your-enterprise-ready-2.html) included these comments:
After that, companies providing AI systems must alert users when they are interacting with AI. They must also tell users when they have been exposed to deepfakes, “emotion recognition,” or biometric categorization systems, or when they are given AI-manipulated content in matters of “public interests without human review or editorial control.”
Henna Virkkunen, the Commission’s executive VP for tech sovereignty, security and democracy, said in a statement, “with today’s guidelines, the Commission supports the smooth and effective application of the AI Act to make AI systems interacting with people such as chatbots and AI agents and AI content more transparent and trustworthy. These guidelines support providers and deployers in meeting their obligations under the AI Act, while helping citizens know when they are interacting with AI.”
Systems must include machine-readable markers to reveal such content, to reduce “the risk of deception and manipulation” and build public trust in AI.
“Generative systems have collapsed the cost of producing convincing content while the cost of judging it stands where it always stood,” said Sanchit Vir Gogia, chief analyst at Greyhound Research. This requirement is “an attempt to restore friction to that imbalance.”
A company’s non-compliance could result in fines anywhere from €750K (about $856K) to €15M (about $17 million), or even up to 3% of its total worldwide annual revenue.
Are you ready?
First published at https://www.vogelitlaw.com/blog/nbspare-you-compliant-with-the-eu-ai-transparency-requirements