The Disclosure Era Starts Today: AI Transparency Rules and the B2B Marketing Stack

As of today, the EU AI Act’s transparency obligations apply—covering chatbots that talk to buyers, synthetic media in campaigns, and machine-readable marking of AI-generated content. Most B2B marketing teams have treated this as legal’s problem. It isn’t: the obligations attach to the systems marketing operates. Here is what actually applies, what doesn’t, and why disclosure is becoming a positioning decision rather than a compliance chore.

August 2, 2026 · 9 min · GlobeCom Team