AI content disclosure: what the EU AI Act means for your WordPress site

Legal requirements, practical labeling, and what to automate.

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What actually needs a label

AI-generated text and images presented as editorial content. Not your spell-checker, not autocomplete — the test is whether a reasonable reader would assume a human authored it.

Where the label belongs

Next to the content, in language readers understand, and once per piece — not a site-wide banner that labels everything and therefore nothing. Per-post is the baseline; per-block matters for mixed articles.

What to automate

The rendering, never the decision. An author marks a post or block as AI-assisted once; the site renders the same honest line everywhere it appears, including feeds and schema.org metadata.

Does disclosure hurt rankings?

There’s no evidence for that. Undisclosed AI content that readers detect anyway is the actual risk — to trust first, rankings second.

AI Content Disclosure handles the rendering.

Per-post and per-block labels, translatable, machine-readable.

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