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Can You Prove a Sound Was Made by AI?

The EU AI Act now says AI-generated audio must announce itself as AI. But can a label survive being uploaded, compressed, and remixed across the internet — and can’t a bad actor just peel it off? A European Commission study tests four technologies — metadata, watermarking, fingerprinting, and forensic detection — and finds none passes alone. The fix is to stack them.

Technical Solutions for Marking and Detecting AI-generated Audio Content under Article 50(2) AI Act
Xavier Serra, R. Oguz Araz, Roser Batlle Roca, Lauri Juvela, David López & Martín Rocamora · European Commission (study report) · 2026 · 12:08
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