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EU AI Act Article 52 transparency

Under the pre-consolidation drafts of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, transparency obligations governing AI systems interacting with natural persons (disclosure), emotion-recognition and biometric-categorisation systems (notification), deepfakes (synthetic-content marking), and AI-generated informational text (disclosure).

What this means in practice

These obligations consolidated into Article 50 of the final text; "Article 52" remains a commonly cited reference to the same transparency regime.

Synonyms

Article 52 transparency , EU AI Act AI-interaction disclosure

See also

  • Transparency duty (Art. 50) — Under Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, specific transparency obligations: providers of AI systems interacting with natural persons must disclose that fact; providers of emotion-recognition or biometric-categorisation systems must inform affected persons; deepfake or AI-generated content intended to inform the public must be marked as synthetic..
  • System prompt — Operator-authored instructions that set behavior, persona, and boundaries for a model — distinguished from user prompts because the system prompt carries the operator's policy, while the user prompt carries end-user intent.