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AI disclosure and EU AI Act Article 50

How OFM Chatbot implements AI disclosure, what the law requires, and what we will not sell you.

Article 50 of the EU AI Act became enforceable on 2 August 2026 and requires that any person interacting with an AI system be told, clearly and at the first point of contact, that they are talking to a machine. A line buried in terms and conditions does not satisfy it. OFM Chatbot ships AI disclosure as a product control rather than a policy page: the agency chooses where the notice appears — the bot’s Telegram bio, the first message of a conversation, or both — and the setting is stored per creator and per market with a timestamped audit trail. EU traffic defaults to disclosure on. OFM Chatbot does not sell concealment, and no configuration of the platform promises that fans will not know they are talking to an AI. The legal call for each market stays with the agency and its counsel; OFM Chatbot supplies the mechanism, the default and the record.

What the law requires

Two regimes matter most to an agency operating in English-speaking and European markets.

  • EU AI Act, Article 50. Providers of AI systems intended to interact directly with natural persons must ensure those persons are informed that they are interacting with an AI system, unless it is obvious to a reasonably well-informed person. The information must be given at the latest at the time of the first interaction. Transparency breaches carry penalties up to EUR 15 million or 3% of worldwide annual turnover, whichever is higher.
  • California Business and Professions Code § 17941 (the bot law). It is unlawful to use a bot to communicate with a person in California in order to incentivise a sale while misleading them about the bot’s artificial identity. There is a safe harbour for disclosure that is clear, conspicuous and reasonably designed to inform.

This page is a description of how our product works, not legal advice. Which markets you operate in, and what disclosure is adequate in each, is a decision for you and your counsel.

How the control works

  1. Placement. Choose the bot’s Telegram bio, the first message of every new conversation, or both. Terms-of-service disclosure is not offered as an option, because on its own it does not meet the Article 50 standard.
  2. Scope. The setting is per creator and per market, so a roster can meet EU requirements without changing how it operates elsewhere.
  3. Default. Disclosure is on by default for EU traffic. Turning it off for an EU market requires an explicit action that is recorded.
  4. Record. Every delivery is logged: which fan, which text, which placement, which timestamp. That log exports with the rest of your data and is what you produce if anyone asks.

What we will not do

We will not sell you a promise that fans cannot tell. No vendor can keep it, and any measurement of it is unverifiable. More practically: it is the single claim that converts a compliance question into a liability, for you as much as for us. The platform has no “undetectable” mode, no setting that suppresses a required disclosure, and no marketing that implies either.

Related

  • Creator consent and age verification are covered in acceptable use.
  • What data we hold about fans, and how deletion works, is in the privacy policy.