AI text from a municipality: when a final check counts as editorial control
A municipality has an AI system write the web pages about a changed scheme for social assistance and allowances, meant to explain to citizens what they are entitled to. A communications officer reads the text for style and spelling and publishes it. The question is whether this public service thereby falls under the exception to the labelling duty.
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praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-artikel-50-gemeentelijke-ai-tekst- Payload hash (sha256)
607ccc8ecea80ab82aa178e5832f9ad99914406b4a757935b3aabb504f27a676
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Praxikon, "AI text from a municipality: when a final check counts as editorial control", praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-artikel-50-gemeentelijke-ai-tekst@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 607ccc8ecea80ab82aa178e5832f9ad99914406b4a757935b3aabb504f27a676- Version
- 1.0.0
- Legal time (effective_at)
- 20 July 2026
- Knowledge time (known_at)
- 8 August 2026
- Closed on
- Not closed
- Topics
- examples
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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Guidelines on Article 50
Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2026) 5054 final, 20.7.2026, point (131), points (133) to (136) and point (138)
praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-article-50-guidelines
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ObligationArticle 50: transparency
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Guidelines on Article 50
Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2026) 5054 final, 20.7.2026, point (131), points (133) to (136) and point (138)
praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-article-50-guidelines
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The Commission guidelines of 20 July 2026 count public administration and public services among the matters of public interest covered by the disclosure duty for published AI text in Article 50(4). For the exception, the guidelines require two cumulative conditions: the AI-generated or manipulated text has undergone human review or editorial control, and a natural or legal person holds editorial responsibility for the publication. They add that human review means a deliberate examination of the substance with fact-checking as a minimum requirement, and that superficial, purely formal or procedural checks such as spell-checking or grammatical correction do not meet it. For the second condition they expect the identity or the function carrying editorial responsibility to be publicly available in an easily findable place.
- Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2026) 5054 final, 20.7.2026, point (131), points (133) to (136) and point (138)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-article-50-guidelinesOpen official source
Our interpretation
Our own reading. It can change without the law changing, and it is not the position of a supervisory authority.
Our reading is that many municipalities do have a publication process but no identifiable person carrying substantive final responsibility, and that is exactly the hinge of this exception. Assign that role explicitly, make it findable who holds it, and record per page who checked the facts, or otherwise take the simpler route and label the text. Watch the order of steps in your workflow, because an AI tool that substantively rewrites the text after human sign-off removes the ground from under that sign-off.
- Locator: Commission Guidelines C(2026) 5054 final, 20.7.2026, point (131), points (133) to (136) and point (138)praxikon:eu:ai-act:source:commission-article-50-guidelinesOpen official source
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Praxikon, "AI text from a municipality: when a final check counts as editorial control", praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-artikel-50-gemeentelijke-ai-tekst@1.0.0, dataset praxikon:sys:registry:dataset:ai-act-implementation-graph 2.1.0 (schema 1.4.0), effective_at 2026-07-20T00:00:00.000Z, known_at 2026-08-08T00:00:00.000Z, sha256 607ccc8ecea80ab82aa178e5832f9ad99914406b4a757935b3aabb504f27a676, https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/example/example-artikel-50-gemeentelijke-ai-tekst (https://www.praxikon.com/api/v1/entities?id=praxikon%3Aeu%3Aai-act%3Aexample%3Aexample-artikel-50-gemeentelijke-ai-tekst&effective_at=2026-07-20&known_at=2026-08-08&lang=en, accessed 2026-08-25)
Short form
praxikon:eu:ai-act:example:example-artikel-50-gemeentelijke-ai-tekst@1.0.0 (sha256 607ccc8e)
BibTeX
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howpublished = {AI Act Change \& Evidence Graph, dataset 2.1.0, schema 1.4.0},
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url = {https://www.praxikon.com/en/verkenner/example/example-artikel-50-gemeentelijke-ai-tekst},
urldate = {2026-08-25},
language = {en}
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