AI Disclosure Compliance Report

§ 01 — Content under review

Format

Video

AI involvement

Fully AI-generated

Primary platform

YouTube

Primary jurisdiction

European Union

§ 02 — Verdict & required labels

Disclosure Required

• YouTube requires disclosing realistic altered or synthetic content

  This video contains content that has been altered or is synthetic (created with AI/digital tools).

  When you upload content that is realistic and was meaningfully altered or generated with AI, you must tick 'Altered or synthetic content' in YouTube Studio. YouTube then shows a label in the description (and a more prominent label on the video for sensitive topics like health, news, elections, finance). Clearly unrealistic, animated, or trivially-edited content is exempt. Source: YouTube Help — Disclosing altered or synthetic content — https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/14328491

• EU AI Act Art. 50 — transparency for AI-generated & deepfake content

  This content was generated or manipulated using artificial intelligence.

  Article 50 of the EU AI Act sets transparency duties: providers must mark AI outputs in a machine-readable way; deployers of deepfakes must clearly disclose that the content is artificially generated/manipulated; AI-generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest must be disclosed; and users must be told when they interact with an AI system (chatbots). Transparency obligations apply from 2 Aug 2026. Source: EU AI Act — Article 50 (transparency obligations) — https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/50/

§ 03 — Deadlines that affect this content

• 2026-06-09New York — disclosure required for AI 'synthetic performers' in ads
• 2026-08-02California AI Transparency Act (SB 942) — provenance & detection duties
• 2026-08-02 (existing GenAI systems have until 2026-12-02 to add machine-readable marking, per the May 2026 AI Omnibus).EU AI Act Art. 50 — transparency for AI-generated & deepfake content

§ 04 — The same content, everywhere you might publish it

§ 05 — Your compliance checklist

1. 01Paste the disclosure label: "This video contains content that has been altered or is synthetic (created with AI/digital tools)."
2. 02Enable the platform's AI-content setting — YouTube requires disclosing realistic altered or synthetic content.
3. 03Confirm you meet: EU AI Act Art. 50 — transparency for AI-generated & deepfake content (effective 2026-08-02 (existing GenAI systems have until 2026-12-02 to add machine-readable marking, per the May 2026 AI Omnibus).).
4. 04Keep a dated record of every disclosure (screenshot or export) as proof of compliance.
5. 05Re-run this check before 2 Aug 2026 — EU AI Act transparency duties start then.