South KoreaAI Framework Act, Article 31 (transparency obligations for AI outputs)
In force since .
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
- How the hook was established
- express
- What makes it apply
- Market targeting, User location
- Audit expectation
- none
What it requires
- Notify users when content they see was produced by generative AI
- Check the Enforcement Decree for labeling specifics as they phase in
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MEASURE 2.8Risks associated with transparency and accountability – as identified in the MAP function – are examined and documented.
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Which virtual sound, image or video outputs are "실제와 구분하기 어려운" ("difficult to distinguish from reality") under Article 31(3) of the AI Framework Act, given that Article 2 of the Act does not define that phrase?
What it makes you log
Logging duty
Article 31 requires prior notice that a product or service operates on high-impact or generative AI, a label that generative output was AI-generated, and, for near-indistinguishable synthetic audio, image or video, a user-perceptible notice or label; the Enforcement Decree's Article 23 states only the method of that notice (on the product, in a contract or manual, on screen, or posted at the point of sale). Neither Article 31 nor its Decree imposes a duty to create, keep or later produce a log or record of having given the notice or applied the label.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
An AI business operator providing a product or service using high-impact or generative AI must give users prior notice that it operates on that AI. An operator providing generative AI, or a product or service using it, must indicate that output was AI-generated, either through a human-perceptible label or machine-readable metadata or watermark.
Where an operator uses AI to produce a virtual sound, image, or video difficult to distinguish from reality, only a user-perceptible label satisfies the deepfake-specific duty, with a narrow exception for artistic or creative works. The Act reaches conduct outside Korea affecting Korean users under its own extraterritoriality clause, and a foreign operator meeting revenue or user thresholds must appoint a domestic representative.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app generates content with AI or deploys a chatbot.
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