Article 50

Article 50 of Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 goes beyond chatbot notification and requires mandatory machine-readable watermarking of synthetic content, disclosure for emotion-recognition systems, and disclosure for deepfakes. It does not touch the models' internal mechanisms; it operates on the outputs, at the boundary between the AI system and its human consumers. It appears in The Faking Machine in the architecture of the transparency regime, and in Constitution Without a State in the contraposition with the Claude Constitution as an object that aims to govern the model's behaviour upstream, before the output that Article 50 regulates downstream.