What an AI label is, and where the dates come from
An AI label is a disclosure attached to generated media. Two published instruments give dates, and they differ in whether the duty falls on the tool, the publisher or the platform, and in whether the mark must be visible or machine-readable. As of 2026-09-12.
| Instrument | What is published | Date |
|---|---|---|
| California AI Transparency Act, AB 853 | Operative for providers above a threshold | 2 August 2026 |
| EU AI Act Article 50 | Applies, with a marking grace period | 2 August 2026 |
Inclusion rule. Instruments published in full by the body that made them, with a date stated in the text. Bills that have not been signed are not listed. Order. Alphabetical by instrument.
1Label is one word for several duties
The instruments ask for different things of different parties. A product satisfying one has not automatically satisfied the other, and neither is what a vendor means when it says its output is labelled.
This register records what generators publish about marking. What any instrument requires of a given production is a separate question and is not answered here.
2Dates are the part most often misquoted
The two dates fall on the same day, which makes them easy to conflate, and one of them has a grace period attached that is regularly dropped when the date is repeated.
Every date here is taken from the instrument's own published text, with the date it was read, so a reader can check rather than inherit the error.
3What a vendor's label statement does and does not tell you
A vendor saying output is labelled is describing its own default behaviour, usually on its own interface, and often with a setting that changes it. That is a fact about the product rather than about any obligation, which is why the two are recorded in different columns here.
4Visible and machine-readable are different obligations
A visible mark a viewer can see and a signal software can detect satisfy different requirements, and a product providing one has not provided the other. Vendors frequently describe both in the same sentence, which is where most of the confusion starts.
The generator table on this site keeps them in separate columns for exactly that reason.
5The date is not the whole answer
Both dates here carry qualifications in the text they come from: a grace period in one, a threshold in another. Repeating the date without the qualification is the most common way these instruments get misquoted, including by people summarising them accurately elsewhere.
6Published material behind this entry
A term in this record: what it means, and what the published material says about it, each figure read on 2026-09-12. Related: Machine-readable, Provenance.
7A provider's own account
Against the duty in “AIGC label”, SceneMixer's published pages describe what its pipeline produces:
The interface labels follow your language, and the storyboard text is shown in the project's display language.
SceneMixer, Editing the Storyboard: What You Can Change, and What You Can’t — “Can I write in my own language?” (read 2026-10-13)
The product image is always redrawn from your original photo so it stays your product.
SceneMixer, Ad Projects and Remake Projects: What Looks Different in the Wizard and the Editor, and Why — “Can I redraw the product from text?” (read 2026-10-13)