Article 50: Synthetic Content Marking & Watermarking Obligations

Statutory Framework: EU AI Act Article 50 (Recital 132)
Rule ID: RULE-EU-023 | Severity: PROGRAMMATIC BLOCKER
Mitigation Action: INJECT_DIGITAL_WATERMARK

1. Statutory Mandate & Legal Boundary

"Mandates machine-readable digital watermarking and provenance headers on all AI-generated text, audio, and image outputs."

2. Technical Invariant & AST Engine Matcher

[POLICIES.RULE-EU-023]
rule_id = "RULE-EU-023"
statute = "EU AI Act Article 50 (Recital 132)"
severity = "BLOCKER"
action = "INJECT_DIGITAL_WATERMARK"

[ENFORCEMENT]
fail_closed = true
audit_trail = "Ed25519_DAC"
latency_max_us = 800

3. Production Python / Rust Integration

from anchor import AnchorGuard

@AnchorGuard.guard(policy="RULE-EU-023")
def process_machine_payload(payload: dict):
    # Evaluated in <0.8ms against RULE-EU-023 AST query bounds
    return compliance_engine.enforce(payload)