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Free tools and short, sourced references on AI content provenance and the EU AI Act’s transparency rules. Every fact links to its source and shows when it was last checked.
Questions
Short answers with the official source.
The EU AI Act
The whole Act, topic by topic, with the official text linked.
- EU AI Act: rules, dates and countriesThe EU AI Act in one place: what it regulates, when each part applies, who it applies to, and a guide per topic, with national authorities and laws by country.17 guides · reviewed 3 November 2026
- AI Act timeline and key dates
- 2 December 2026: the AI Act marking deadline
- Digital Omnibus on AI (2026/1744): what changed
- Who must comply with the AI Act: providers, deployers and others
- AI Act risk levels: the four categories
- AI Act Article 5: prohibited AI practices
- High-risk AI under the AI Act: Article 6 and Annex III
- General-purpose AI obligations under the AI Act
- AI Act Article 4: the AI literacy obligation
- AI Act Article 50(1): telling people they are talking to an AI
- AI Act fines and penalties: Articles 99 and 101
- The AI Act for SMEs, start-ups and small mid-caps
- AI Act vs GDPR: how the two laws fit together
- Code of Practice on Transparency of AI-generated Content
- AI Act compliance checklist, by role and date
- AI Act in Austria: the RTR AI Service Desk and authorities
- The EU AI Act and Switzerland
Labelling AI content
For everyone who makes images, video, voice, music or text with AI.
- Do I have to label AI content in the EU?When the EU AI Act requires a visible label on AI-generated images, video, audio, music and text, who it applies to, and what platforms add on top.8 guides · reviewed 3 November 2026
- Do you have to label AI-generated images?
- Do you have to label AI-generated video?
- AI voices and voice clones: when to disclose
- Do you have to label AI-generated music?
- Do you have to label AI-written text?
- Deepfakes and AI avatars: the EU rules
- EU icons for labelling AI-generated content
- How to check if an image, video or audio is AI-generated
Tools
Free, no account. Run in your browser.
- The Proofcan badgeA small embeddable image that links to the public record page of an image signed with Proofcan. It makes no claim by itself.reviewed 6 October 2026
- Content Credentials checkerRead the C2PA Content Credentials embedded in an image — signer, generating tool, AI declaration, time and signature status — in your browser.4 sources · reviewed 2 November 2026
Trackers
Dates and obligations, with the official text linked.
Databases
One page per entry, each built from the vendor’s or regulator’s own documents.
- AI tools: C2PA, watermarks and labels (image, video, audio)What each AI image, video, voice and avatar tool’s own documentation says about C2PA Content Credentials, invisible and visible watermarks, labelling and commercial use. 15 tool pages, 25 tools in the table.reviewed 3 November 2026
- ChatGPT, Codex and the OpenAI API (images)
- Sora (video; discontinued)
- Adobe Firefly
- Google Gemini image models, Imagen and Veo
- Microsoft Designer
- Bing Image Creator
- Meta AI image generation
- Stability AI (hosted API)
- FLUX (Black Forest Labs)
- Midjourney
- Amazon Nova Canvas
- Runway
- Grok Imagine (xAI)
- ElevenLabs
- Synthesia
- AI content rules by platform (2026)What each platform’s own pages say about labelling AI content (who must disclose, automatic labels, ads and monetisation) and about Content Credentials. 13 platforms.reviewed 3 November 2026
- Facebook, Instagram and Threads: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- LinkedIn: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- TikTok: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- YouTube: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- Cloudflare Images
- Google Photos
- Pinterest: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- Spotify: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- Deezer: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- SoundCloud: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- Amazon KDP: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- Steam: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- Google Ads and Merchant Center: AI content rules and Content Credentials
- Proofcan compared with other provenance and watermarking providersFacts each provider publishes on its own site, side by side with Proofcan, including what Proofcan lacks. 6 providers.reviewed 6 October 2026
- AI content labelling laws outside the EULaws and rules on labelling AI-generated content, read from the official text. 4 laws.reviewed 6 October 2026
References
Short, sourced definitions.
- What is C2PA?C2PA is an open technical standard for attaching signed provenance information — Content Credentials — to digital content.4 sources · reviewed 2 November 2026
- What Article 50 of the AI Act requiresArticle 50 sets transparency duties for providers and deployers of certain AI systems, including machine-readable marking of AI-generated content.3 sources · reviewed 2 November 2026
- Why metadata gets stripped (and what survives)File metadata, including C2PA manifests, can be lost when an image is re-encoded or uploaded; the C2PA specification adds watermark and fingerprint bindings to recover it.2 sources · reviewed 6 October 2026