Disclose AI involvement
Art. 50(1)Users must be informed when they're interacting with an AI system. APEX's agents are clearly labeled as AI in the app. A per-response AI label is being built.
EU AI Act · Article 50
Article 50: where we stand.
EU AI Act Article 50 took effect August 2, 2026. PYRAMYD answers cite their sources, and generated images carry a machine-readable AI marker. Text marking and a per-answer audit trail are being built.
Effective Aug 2, 2026Up to €15M / 3% turnover penaltyImages marked todayCited answers
The four transparency obligations
What Article 50 requires · and what PYRAMYD does about each.
The four sub-articles map to concrete UX and audit-log behaviors. Below is how PYRAMYD satisfies each.
Mark generated content as machine-readable
Art. 50(2)Synthetic content must carry a machine-detectable marker. Images APEX generates carry a machine-readable AI marker (IPTC DigitalSourceType) that downstream tools can read without changing what you see. Marking for text answers is being built.
Label emotion-recognition and biometric categorization
Art. 50(3)Not applicable: PYRAMYD does not run emotion recognition or biometric categorization.
Label deepfakes / artificial content
Art. 50(4)AI-generated text, images, audio, or video must be labeled. Generated images carry an AI marker in their metadata; labels for text and exports are being built.
Provenance schema
Every enriched value carries its evidence.
Each enriched value records its source links, when they were retrieved, the model that wrote it, and a quality and a confidence score. Click any field in the workspace and the provenance popover shows where it came from. Battlecard PDF and PowerPoint exports carry their sources.
| Field | What it carries |
|---|---|
| Source URL | Every claim links to its origin (G2 review, SEC filing, press release, etc.) |
| Retrieval timestamp | When PYRAMYD fetched the source — separate from when the answer was generated |
| Model | The model that produced the value, recorded with each value rather than once for the platform |
| Quality score (0-100) | Signal-strength score from the verification gate, not a star rating |
| Confidence score (0-100) | Model's self-reported certainty on the extraction · separate from quality |
Timeline
Key Article 50 dates.
- July 12, 2024Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 (EU AI Act) published in the Official Journal
- August 1, 2024EU AI Act entered into force
- February 2, 2025Prohibitions on certain AI systems became applicable (Art. 113)
- August 2, 2026Article 50 transparency obligations became generally applicable (Art. 113)
Source dates per Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, Article 113 (Entry into force and application) and the EU AI Act application timeline published at eur-lex.europa.eu.
Related compliance frameworks
The standards Article 50 sits inside.
EU AI Act Article 50 doesn't stand alone — it sits on top of a stack of AI-management and AI-risk frameworks. PYRAMYD's provenance schema is compatible with all three.
ISO/IEC 42001:2023
First international standard for AI Management Systems (AIMS). Defines how organizations establish, implement, maintain, and continually improve an AI management system. Published Dec 2023 by ISO/IEC.
NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0
Voluntary US framework (NIST AI 100-1, January 2023) for managing AI risks. Pairs with the GenAI Profile (NIST AI 600-1, July 2024). Provenance and traceability are explicit AI RMF characteristics.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1689
The EU AI Act itself — official text at eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/1689/oj. Article 50 governs transparency; Article 99 sets penalties (up to €15M or 3% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher).
For procurement teams
Where we stand on Article 50, in one line.
“PYRAMYD answers cite the sources they draw on, and images APEX generates carry a machine-readable AI marker (IPTC DigitalSourceType). Disclosure and machine-readable marking for text answers are being built.”
Accurate as of 8 October 2026. We'll show the evidence on a call and update this as text marking ships.
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