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AI Images Only Lose Trust Once Someone Suspects They're Fake

Two 21 August 2026 studies find AI images cost nothing until viewers suspect them, just as EU Article 50 makes that disclosure mandatory by default.

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The AI Sparkle Icon Meets Europe's New Disclosure Law

EU AI Act Article 50, effective 2 August 2026, needs a persistent AI-made label — a job the industry's shared sparkle icon, unrecognizable as AI in testing, was never built for.

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Product Design

UX.md and DESIGN.md Reveal What AI-Ready Documents Leave Out

Nielsen Norman Group published contradicting July 2026 essays on AI design documents, exposing the alignment work curated context alone doesn't do.

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The EU AI Act Ends Chatbot Design's Hide-the-Human Bet

Nielsen Norman Group's July research and the EU AI Act's 2 August transparency deadline are turning chatbot handoff design from a cost lever into a compliance problem.