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Deep fake

Far broader than fake videos of famous people: objects, places, entities and events are covered too.

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Identifier: praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-deepfake
Payload hash (sha256): b0c2f8ddba451add6e0ecd11ee18e5941ab3e4527dc4b59200029d389c60e2eb

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Praxikon, "Deep fake", praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-deepfake@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0), effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-14T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 b0c2f8ddba451add6e0ecd11ee18e5941ab3e4527dc4b59200029d389c60e2eb

Version: 1.0.0
Legal time (effective_at): 8 August 2026
Knowledge time (known_at): 8 August 2026
Closed on: Not closed
Application date: 2 February 2025
Topics: definitions

Review status: Placed against the official source (8 August 2026). Next check due by 4 February 2027. The check date is the knowledge date of this version; no later recheck has been recorded.

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Source
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- EU Artificial Intelligence Act 2024/1689
  Locator: Article 3(60)
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689
  Open official source
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  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:deployer
- ActorProvider of an AI system
  praxikon:eu:ai-act:actor:provider

What this object states

Official fact

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Article 3(60) defines a deep fake as AI-generated or manipulated image, audio or video content that resembles existing persons, objects, places, entities or events and would falsely appear to a person to be authentic or truthful.
- Locator: Article 3(60)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Our interpretation

Our own reading. It can change without the law changing, and it is not the position of a supervisory authority.

The name pushes the reading in the wrong direction. Under this Regulation a deep fake is not limited to fake footage of famous people: the definition expressly also names objects, places, entities and events. An AI-generated photo of an existing building, a demonstration that never happened, or a product image that reads as a real photograph can therefore be a deep fake. Two boundaries matter. The definition names image, audio and video; pure text is not covered, although Article 50 has its own rule for certain publications. And content resembling a non-existent person falls outside point 60, while it may still fall under the marking duty for synthetic output. Article 50 has applied since 2 August 2026; the only transition concerns the machine-readable marking of Article 50(2) for systems already on the market before 2 August 2026, running until 2 December 2026.
- Locator: Article 3(60)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

Recommended step

A practical step we consider appropriate. Not an obligation following from the Regulation.

Map which departments publish AI-generated image, audio or video content, including marketing, communications, training and customer contact, and record per channel how the artificial origin is disclosed. Include generated images of existing locations and products, because those are precisely the ones rarely recognised as deep fakes.
- Locator: Article 3(60)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:reg-eu-2024-1689Open official source

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Reference

Praxikon, "Deep fake",
praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-deepfake@1.0.0,
dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0),
effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z,
sha256 b0c2f8ddba451add6e0ecd11ee18e5941ab3e4527dc4b59200029d389c60e2eb,
https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-deepfake
(https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Adefinition%3Adefinitie-deepfake&effective_at=2026-08-08&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-23)

Short form

praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-deepfake@1.0.0 (sha256 b0c2f8dd)

BibTeX

@misc{praxikon-eu-ai-act-definition-definitie-deepfake-1-0-0,
  author       = {{Praxikon}},
  title        = {Deep fake},
  year         = {2026},
  version      = {1.0.0},
  number       = {praxikon:eu:ai-act:definition:definitie-deepfake},
  howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
  note         = {effective_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z; sha256 b0c2f8ddba451add6e0ecd11ee18e5941ab3e4527dc4b59200029d389c60e2eb},
  url          = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/definition/definitie-deepfake},
  urldate      = {2026-08-23},
  language     = {en}
}

CSL JSON

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