Activities / What code does / Generates content with AI
Generates text with AI
generates_text
Your app uses artificial intelligence (AI) to produce written text, rather than only publishing what a person wrote.
- scope code
- in the registry since 1.7
- 16 laws in 16 jurisdictions name it
What triggers it
The lint's definition. It writes text with an AI model that reaches its users or the public: articles, messages, summaries or code. Somebody else's model counts; output only its own team reads is not this.
This covers an AI copywriting tool, a summarizer, a drafting assistant and a code generator, whether the model is yours or a vendor's.
It implies Generates content with AI, so the rules written for every kind of AI-generated content reach it too.
What does not
Content a person wrote, that your app only formats or spell-checks, does not count.
A chatbot that people talk to is Deploys a chatbot.
Often confused with Generates content with AI and Deploys a chatbot.
The law it brings into scope
The kinds of law that name this activity in the LexLint law library, with the number of laws and jurisdictions in each, as of . The examples are chosen by rule, laws in force first and the widest jurisdiction first; each section's page lists every law.
| Area of law | Laws | Jurisdictions |
|---|---|---|
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AI law
Tell people when they are dealing with an AI system or its output, and control the uses the law calls high-risk. |
16 | 16 |
This activity implies Generates content with AI, so every law that names that activity reaches it too. These areas of law reach it only that way:
- Privacy law:
216 laws in
114 jurisdictions,
through Generates content with AI
Have a legal basis for personal data, honor people's rights over it, and report a breach.
- Cybersecurity law:
109 laws in
74 jurisdictions,
through Generates content with AI
Build software securely, handle reported flaws, and report incidents on a deadline.
- Product and AI liability law:
27 laws in
25 jurisdictions,
through Generates content with AI
Answer in damages when defective software or an AI system causes harm.
- Reuse law:
7 laws in
4 jurisdictions,
through Generates content with AI
Reproduce other publishers' content only as far as an exception or a license allows.
- Content moderation law:
1 law in
1 jurisdiction,
through Generates content with AI
Act on notice of unlawful content, explain moderation decisions, and report on them.
- Scraping law:
1 law in
1 jurisdiction,
through Generates content with AI
Stay within computer-access law, a site's terms, and the copyright in what is copied.
Counterparties that usually come with it
- a model provider whose API writes the output
A component that cannot run as documented without one of these names
it in its ACTIVITIES.md under talks_to, with
required: true. That party's jurisdiction then joins the
run of every product that uses the component, and the finding says
why it is there. A default the deployer can change is asked about,
never added. Talking to a party never makes a product that party.
In a declaration
A library or framework that makes this possible enables
it; an application whose shipped code does it performs it.
For a library
For an application
History
In the registry since version 1.7, .
Added for AI Act, Article 50 (transparency obligations for AI systems and synthetic content) (European Union), the law that turns on it.
In the glossary: Generates text with AI.
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