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AI-content disclosure obligation
Act on Promotion of R&D and Utilization of AI-Related Technologies ('AI Promotion Act') + AI Guidelines for Business Ver. 1.2
Not yet reviewed by an attorney. Primary text last checked September 1, 2026. This summary may be incomplete — see the open items below.
Disclose that this is AI, not a person. This duty falls on both the AI tool/platform and the publisher.
- Effective
- 2025-06-04
- Applies to
- both
- Extraterritorial
- No
- Penalty
- No fines, no bans — enforcement via administrative guidance and reputational pressure only
Notes
- Current guidance document: 'AI Guidelines for Business Ver. 1.2,' issued 2026-03-31 — voluntary/non-binding, encourages (does not require) AI systems to identify as non-human.
Open items before this is fully reliable
- The schema's boolean fields don't cleanly represent 'voluntary guidance, not a legal requirement' — platformLabelSatisfies: true and no penalty capture the practical effect (nothing enforceable), but this row isn't really the same kind of thing as the others in this table. Revisit if this pattern recurs.