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- The European Union AI Act will begin to be enforceable in August 2026, one month from now1.
- One of the biggest new requirements is Article 50, which requires all AI outputs to be “detectable as artificially generated”.
- In other words, if LLM providers want to do business in the EU, they will have to apply a watermark to their outputs2: some hidden signature that can be used to identify AI content.
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- The European Union AI Act will begin to be enforceable in August 2026, one month from now1.
- One of the biggest new requirements is Article 50, which requires all AI outputs to be “detectable as artificially generated”.
- In other words, if LLM providers want to do business in the EU, they will have to apply a watermark to their outputs2: some hidden signature that can be used to identify AI content.
Sources: Seangoedecke