The EU AI Act Takes Effect in August 2026. Is Your Website Ready?
Key summary
EU AI Act takes effect August 2, 2026; Article 50 requires disclosure when content was generated or substantially modified by an AI system.
Disclosures must be human-visible and machine-readable; penalties for non-compliance can reach EUR 15 million or 3% of annual global turnover.
No widely adopted disclosure standard exists yet; a free online checker scans a URL (no signup) and runs five checks: JSON-LD, <meta name="ai-generated">, <meta name="ai-system">, <meta name="ai-operator">, visible disclosure text.
Example site https://neuralflow.mylurch.com passes all five checks; a script tag can add an AI transparency badge and disclosure popup that includes Article 50 text.
Badge is visible by default bottom-right and expands on click; machine-readable JSON-LD is added in <head>, and an NPM package exposes these features programmatically.