Bruna Santos and Jacobo Castellanos write in Tech Policy Press that the EU AI Act’s transparency provisions, which took effect on August 2, 2026, leave significant gaps despite introducing marking and detection requirements for AI-generated content. They note that provenance information remains optional and enforcement mechanisms for open-weight models are limited. The authors argue that a label is not the same as protection, calling for more durable content-marking systems and stronger accountability measures.
