Article 50 Readiness Checker

1. Have you inventoried every AI system that interacts with people or generates content (chatbots, assistants, generative text/image/audio/video)?

Art 50 only bites on specific system types. You cannot disclose what you have not mapped.

2. Do users get a clear notice that they are interacting with an AI system when they hit a chatbot or AI assistant (Art 50(1))?

Required unless it is obvious from the context. The notice must be given at or before first interaction.

3. Is AI-generated or manipulated output marked in a machine-readable format (Art 50(2): C2PA, SynthID, watermark or embedded metadata)?

Providers of generative AI carry this duty; deployers must not strip the signal downstream.

4. Do you disclose when content is a deep fake or artificially generated/manipulated media (Art 50(4))?

Deployers of AI producing deep fakes must disclose the artificial origin to the audience.

5. For AI-written text published to inform the public on matters of public interest, do you label it as artificially generated (Art 50(4))?

Exception only where a human takes editorial review and responsibility for the text.

6. If you run emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems, do you inform the exposed persons of their operation (Art 50(3))?

Plus lawful GDPR / Law Enforcement Directive processing of the personal data involved.

7. Have you collected provider/vendor attestations confirming how each third-party AI system meets its Article 50 marking duties?

You rely on providers for Art 50(2) marking; you need evidence they actually do it.

8. Do you keep a dated evidence pack (disclosure templates, screenshots, register) ready for auditors, procurement or investors?

Supervisors and buyers ask for demonstrable measures, not just intentions.