Guidelines on the implementation of the transparency obligations for certain AI systems under Article 50 of the AI Act — C(2026) 5054 final, Annex

(28) Article 50(1) AI Act is addressed to providers of AI systems directly interacting with natural persons, who must design and develop their systems in such a way that the natural persons concerned are informed that they are interacting with an AI system. As explained in Recital 132 AI Act, the purpose of this information obligation is to enable those natural persons to take informed decisions regarding the system’s outputs, to avoid overreliance on such systems, and to allow those natural persons to calibrate their trust in the content and the interactions accordingly.

(14) In particular, Article 26(11) AI Act imposes a transparency obligation on deployers of high-risk AI systems that make decisions or assist in making decisions related to inform natural persons that they are subject to the use of the high-risk AI system. These transparency obligations are complementary to those in Article 50 AI Act, since they concern different information that must be provided to the natural persons, but they can be combined in single notifications.

(15) Article 3(66) AI Act defines a general-purpose AI (‘GPAI’) system as an AI system which is based on a general-purpose AI model and which has the capability to serve a variety of purposes, both for direct use as well as for integration in other AI systems.

(16) Article 50(2) AI Act contains an explicit reference to GPAI systems.

(17) Recital 133 AI Act.