# Article50.io

> Article50.io is an automated scanner for the Article 50 transparency rules of the EU AI Act. It scans a website for potential Article 50 transparency gaps and generates a report of what the scan found and what it could not check, with remediation guidance, implementation instructions and disclosure wording you can paste in.

Article50.io helps organizations identify potential Article 50 transparency obligations under the EU AI Act. The scanner runs automated checks on a website's public pages and generates a report of what the scan found and what it could not check, including identified transparency issues, explanations, remediation recommendations, implementation guidance and copy-and-paste disclosure wording. Reports are generated automatically and are typically delivered within minutes.

Monitoring tools tell you what's wrong. Article50.io tells you how to fix it: every finding in the scan report comes with ready-to-paste fix wording and implementation steps, for a one-time price with no subscription.

A clean result is not a compliance clearance, and this is not legal advice.

## Using Article50.io

- [Free scan (homepage)](https://article50.io/#scan): enter a website address; the scan loads one public page in a real browser and shows the single most severe finding in 45 seconds or less. No signup. On browsers with WebMCP, the scan form is also exposed to agents as the tool `scan_website` (input: the page address; output: the same result the page shows).
- [How the scan works](https://article50.io/how-the-scan-works): what the scan checks, what it can't see from a public page, and how findings are worded.
- [Sample report](https://article50.io/sample-report): a sample scan result and a sample paid scan report for a fictional company, generated by the same code.
- Pricing: the free scan costs nothing; the full scan report is a one-time purchase of €499 (EUR) covering every finding, each with a ready-to-paste fix, plus one free recheck within 30 days. No subscription and no account.
- [Terms of Service](https://article50.io/terms): payment, the not-legal-advice terms, accuracy limits and acceptable use.
- [Article50ResearchBot](https://article50.io/research-bot): the research crawler behind our studies, its robots.txt rules and how to opt out.

## Article 50 guides

- [Article 50 of the EU AI Act — Full Transparency Requirements Explained](https://article50.io/article-50-eu-ai-act): what Article 50(1), 50(2) and 50(4) require, who they apply to, enforcement since August 2, 2026, and penalties up to €15M or 3% of global turnover.
- [Article 50 Compliance Checklist](https://article50.io/article-50-compliance-checklist): what a website needs to disclose — AI chat interaction, synthetic content marking, deep fakes and AI-generated public-interest text.
- [EU AI Act Transparency Obligations Under Article 50](https://article50.io/article-50-transparency-obligations): providers vs. deployers, and how Article 50 differs from high-risk obligations.
- [Does Your Chatbot Need an AI Disclosure? Article 50(1) Explained](https://article50.io/article-50-chatbot-disclosure): the chatbot disclosure requirement, with a ready-to-paste disclosure snippet.
- [AI Deepfake Disclosure Requirements — Article 50(4)](https://article50.io/article-50-deepfake-disclosure): what counts as a deep fake, who must disclose, and the public-interest text disclosure.
- [Labeling AI-Generated Content Under Article 50(2)](https://article50.io/article-50-ai-generated-content-labeling): machine-readable marking for AI-generated audio, image, video and text.
- [AI Disclosure Statement: Templates and Examples](https://article50.io/ai-disclosure-statement): how to write an AI disclosure statement (what is AI, where, when, in plain words in the user's language), with copy-paste examples for a chatbot greeting, a voice agent opening line, an AI image caption, a deepfake or AI-altered video label, an AI-written article note and a general "How we use AI" statement.
- [Was Article 50 of the EU AI Act Delayed?](https://article50.io/eu-ai-act-article-50-delay): no — Article 50 applies from 2 August 2026. The Digital Omnibus on AI delayed the high-risk rules to 2 December 2027 (Annex III) and 2 August 2028 (Annex I), not the Article 50 transparency rules; generative AI systems already on the market before 2 August 2026 have until 2 December 2026 for Article 50(2) machine-readable marking. Includes a timeline of EU AI Act dates.

## Research

- [State of Article 50 on EU Websites: 58 of 59 Chat Widgets Showed No AI Disclosure](https://article50.io/research/state-of-article-50-eu-websites-2026): an anonymised automated scan of 2,279 popular EU websites (top of Tranco list GQG5K, .de .fr .nl .es .it .ie .be .at .pl .se), 21–22 October 2026. Of the 59 sites with a chat widget the scanner could detect, 58 (98.3%; 95% CI 91–99.7%) showed no AI disclosure detected by an automated scan at first view, before the chat was opened; 1 (1.7%) showed one. 862 sites could not be checked (436 unscannable, 33 excluded by robots.txt, 393 robots.txt unreachable). No site is named; home pages only, chat not opened; not legal advice.

## Article 50 questions

- [Does my chatbot need to say it is an AI under the EU AI Act?](https://article50.io/does-my-chatbot-need-an-ai-disclosure): yes, in most cases — Article 50(1) and 50(5) require a clear notice at the first interaction unless it is obvious. The Digital Omnibus did not delay chatbot disclosure.
- [Does Article 50 Apply to US Companies? (EU AI Act)](https://article50.io/does-article-50-apply-outside-the-eu): the AI Act can reach non-EU providers and deployers whose AI system's output is used in the EU; what Article 2 settles and what remains open for websites.
- [What Happens If You Ignore Article 50? Penalties Explained](https://article50.io/what-happens-if-i-ignore-article-50): fines of up to €15M or 3% of worldwide annual turnover under Article 99(4), with a lower cap for SMEs and small mid-caps.
- [Does Article 50 Apply to AI-Generated Text?](https://article50.io/does-article-50-apply-to-ai-generated-text): two different rules — machine-readable marking by providers (50(2)) and disclosure of public-interest text by deployers (50(4)).
- [Do AI Avatars Require Disclosure Under Article 50?](https://article50.io/do-ai-avatars-require-disclosure): an avatar can trigger 50(1), 50(2) and 50(4) at once depending on whether it converses, is generated media, and could pass as real.
- [Can I Use ChatGPT to Write Article 50 Disclosures?](https://article50.io/can-chatgpt-be-used-for-article-50-disclosures): yes — Article 50 cares that the disclosure is present, clear and accurate, not who drafted it.
- [What Happens If Your AI Causes Harm? EU Liability Rules Explained](https://article50.io/what-happens-if-my-ai-causes-harm): the AI Liability Directive was withdrawn in 2025; harm claims now run through the revised Product Liability Directive (EU) 2024/2853 (transposition by December 9, 2026), national tort law, and AI Act non-compliance as evidence.

## Free disclosure templates

General-purpose, copy-and-paste templates. For wording matched to a specific site's findings, run a free scan at https://article50.io.

- [Free Article 50 Disclosure Template (Copy & Paste)](https://article50.io/article-50-disclosure-template): a general Article 50(1) AI interaction disclosure with placement guidance; start here.
- [Free AI Chatbot Disclaimer Template — Article 50(1) Disclosure](https://article50.io/ai-chatbot-disclaimer-template): chat window banner, first-message greeting and bot-to-human handoff line.
- [Free Deepfake Disclosure Template — Article 50(4)](https://article50.io/deepfake-disclosure-template): captions and labels for AI-generated or manipulated images, video and audio, plus a lighter version for artistic or satirical work.
- [Free AI-Generated Content Label Template — Article 50(2)](https://article50.io/ai-content-label-template): machine-readable marking examples (IPTC digital source type, page markup) and a visible label to pair with them.
- [Free AI Image & Video Disclosure Template](https://article50.io/ai-generated-image-video-disclosure-template): captions, corner badges, video descriptions and alt text for AI-generated visuals.
- [Free AI-Generated Public-Interest Text Disclosure Template](https://article50.io/public-interest-text-ai-disclosure-template): disclosures for AI-generated news and current-affairs text under Article 50(4), and the editorial review exception.
- [Free Privacy Policy AI Disclosure Clause](https://article50.io/privacy-policy-ai-disclosure-clause-template): a privacy policy clause on AI use; not an Article 50 requirement, but often expected under GDPR Article 13 where AI processes personal data.

## Does Article 50 apply to you?

Article 50 applies to specific uses of AI, not to industries. These pages help a business work out whether it is actually affected.

- [Does Article 50 Apply to You? Find Your Situation](https://article50.io/article-50-applicability): three questions that decide Article 50 applicability, and links to guides by type of business.
- [Article 50 for SaaS Companies](https://article50.io/article-50-for-saas-companies): relevant if you run an AI chat widget or ship AI features; a SaaS product with no such AI has no Article 50 exposure.
- [Article 50 for AI Startups](https://article50.io/article-50-for-ai-startups): building AI products usually makes you a provider (Article 3(3)), carrying the 50(1) and 50(2) obligations.
- [Article 50 for Agencies](https://article50.io/article-50-for-agencies): chatbots and AI content built for clients; who counts as provider or deployer in agency relationships is not settled.
- [Article 50 for Publishers](https://article50.io/article-50-for-publishers): Article 50(4) disclosure for AI-generated public-interest text, unless it had human editorial review.
- [Article 50 for YouTubers and Video Creators](https://article50.io/article-50-for-youtubers): realistic AI video, voices and avatars under Article 50(4); YouTube's own AI labels are a separate platform policy.
- [Article 50 for Podcasters](https://article50.io/article-50-for-podcasters): cloned or synthetic voices; 50(2) marking is the voice tool's duty, 50(4) disclosure is the podcaster's when a voice would pass as real.
- [Article 50 for Ecommerce Stores](https://article50.io/article-50-for-ecommerce): AI shopping assistants (50(1)) and AI-generated product imagery (50(2), and 50(4) if photorealistic).
- [Article 50 for Marketing Teams](https://article50.io/article-50-for-marketing-teams): realistic AI people, voices and scenes in campaigns under Article 50(4), and keeping 50(2) marking intact.

## Reference

- [Article 50 Questions & Answers](https://article50.io/article-50-questions): one-sentence answers to the most common Article 50 questions, each linking to a full explainer.
- [Article 50 & EU AI Act Glossary](https://article50.io/article-50-glossary): definitions of provider (Art. 3(3)), deployer (Art. 3(4)), deep fake (Art. 3(60)), machine-readable marking, synthetic content and other Article 50 terms, with citations.