- Is this legal advice?
- No. It is a drafting aid. What it does that a blank page does not is name the instrument and the exact provision behind every block, and date the reading, so you or your counsel can check each one against the primary source in a few minutes rather than working out from scratch which laws even reach you. A regulator reads the text you publish, not the text we suggested.
- Why does a chatbot notice differ from a bot disclosure?
- Because they are three different duties with three different triggers. EU AI Act Article 50(1) applies to systems that interact with people and asks you to make the AI evident. California's B.O.T. Act only bites when a bot is used to incentivise a sale or influence a vote, and it wants a disclosure a reasonable person would notice. The CIPA line is not an AI duty at all — it is a wiretapping consent, and it exists because your chat vendor is a third party reading the conversation as it happens. A single sentence saying "I'm a bot" satisfies the first two and none of the third.
- The EU marking block is not copy. Why is it in here?
- Article 50(2) asks for the output to be marked in a machine-readable way — metadata, a watermark, a provenance manifest. A visible sentence under the image does not satisfy it, and that is the single most common way this obligation is missed, so the block tells you what to implement and gives you the public line to sit alongside it rather than pretending a paragraph is enough.
- I picked several places and got fewer notices than I expected.
- Role filters some of them. The training-data summary and the machine-readable marking sit with whoever put the system on the market, so they disappear when you say you use someone else's product. Everything that attaches to the decision you make — the hiring notices, the Colorado consumer notice, the workplace notice — stays with you either way, because buying a vendor's system does not move that duty upstream.
- How current is this?
- Every block carries the date it was last read against its source, and the source link sits next to it. As of now it covers 11 instruments. Dates move — the Colorado act has already been delayed once — so check the deadline on the block before you plan around it.
- What does accessibility have to do with AI disclosure?
- Directly, nothing, and the notice text above does not pretend otherwise. Indirectly: the page you publish these notices on is a page, and the same law that makes you disclose the system frequently makes the disclosure itself an accessibility obligation — a notice nobody using a screen reader can read is not a notice. The scan below is free and answers that part.
