Free disclosure templates for AI-generated news, current-affairs and other public-interest text — the second half of Article 50(4) of the EU AI Act, separate from its deep fake rule and with its own editorial review exception.
<p class="ai-text-notice">
This article is AI-generated. It was produced by an AI system
and published without human editorial review.
</p>Parts of this article were created using AI, including [the summary / the data section / the translation].AI-generated summary · This summary was produced automatically from [source] and has not been checked by an editor.Drafted with AI assistance. Reviewed and edited by [Editor name], who is responsible for this publication.The last template is optional: it's for content that falls under the editorial review exception, where no disclosure is required but you want to be open about AI assistance anyway.
Deployers of an AI system that generates or manipulates text published with the purpose of informing the public on matters of public interest must disclose that the text has been artificially generated or manipulated.
The exception: no disclosure is needed where the AI-generated content has undergone human review or editorial control and a natural or legal person holds editorial responsibility for its publication. An auto-published AI news feed needs the disclosure; an article drafted with AI and signed off by an accountable editor may not.
This is distinct from the deep fake half of the same sub-clause, which covers images, audio and video and has no editorial exception — see the deepfake disclosure template. For how 50(4) and the 50(2) marking rule divide up AI text, read does Article 50 apply to AI-generated text?
Article 50(4) covers AI-generated or manipulated text published with the purpose of informing the public on matters of public interest — news, current affairs, politics, public health and similar. The Act doesn't define the phrase further; ordinary marketing copy usually falls outside it.
Not under Article 50(4), if the AI-generated content has undergone human review or editorial control and a natural or legal person holds editorial responsibility for its publication. Both conditions need to be met.
Same sub-clause, different rule. The first half of Article 50(4) covers deep fake images, audio and video; the second half covers public-interest text, and only this half has the editorial review exception.
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