I scanned 495 big EU sites for the AI Act's chatbot rule. It's invisible
EU AI Act Article 50 applies from 2 August 2026Does your website's chatbot break the EU AI Act?From 2 August 2026, visitors interacting with an AI system must be told they are talking to AI — clearly, at the first interaction. Fines for Article 50 violations reach €15 million or 3% of worldwide turnover. Scan your site free to see where you stand.Scan my site — freeNo signup.
- ▪EU AI Act Article 50 applies from 2 August 2026Does your website's chatbot break the EU AI Act?From 2 August 2026, visitors interacting with an AI system must be told they are talking to AI — clearly, at the first interaction.
- ▪Fines for Article 50 violations reach €15 million or 3% of worldwide turnover.
- ▪Scan your site free to see where you stand.Scan my site — freeNo signup.
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Story provenance
Source · retrieval · rights · ranking — open for full record
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Attribution is not the same as permission. This drawer separates discovery metadata, excerpts, WeSearch-generated summaries, reuse status, and whether the publisher receives the visit. Nothing here claims a legal grant the publisher has not made.
Record
| Original publisher | Article 50 Ready |
| Canonical URL | https://article50ready.com |
| Publication time | Mon, 27 Jul 2026 14:45:57 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-27T15:01:24.344Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-27T15:01:24.344Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | YMYi5LKvQnE1 · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
Rights status (four layers)
WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
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EU AI Act Article 50 applies from 2 August 2026Does your website's chatbot break the EU AI Act?From 2 August 2026, visitors interacting with an AI system must be told they are talking to AI — clearly, at the first interaction. Fines for Article 50 violations reach €15 million or 3% of worldwide turnover. Scan your site free to see where you stand.Scan my site — freeNo signup. Takes ~5 seconds. We check your site for AI chatbots and widgets covered by Article 50.Using one of these chat tools? See tool-specific guidanceIntercomTidioCrispHubSpotZendeskSmartsuppChatbaseVoiceflowTawk.toGorgiasWhat Article 50 actually requiresTell visitors it's AIAI systems that interact with people must inform them they are talking to AI — unless it is already obvious to a reasonably well-informed person.
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