Klarvo AI Transparency for EU AI Act

Description

The EU AI Act’s Article 50 transparency obligations apply from 2 August 2026. If your website uses AI — a chatbot, AI-written content, AI personalisation — your visitors must be told. Most plugins make you figure that out yourself. Klarvo AI Transparency does the work for you.

The moment you activate it, Klarvo:

  1. Scans your whole site against a registry of 1,800+ AI tools — chatbots, content generators, translation, personalisation, search and more.
  2. Gives you one clear answer — an AI Act Readiness score out of 100 and a simple traffic light: Covered, Action needed, or At risk.
  3. Tells you what it means for you, in plain English, with the relevant part of the law one click away.
  4. Sets up your disclosures for you — a compliant Article 50 notice, an AI usage statement page, a chatbot label, AI-content labelling — and keeps watching, re-checking automatically whenever your site changes.

It works immediately, with no account and no API key. Connecting a free Klarvo account is optional and only adds features — your protection keeps working either way.

Found no AI? You’re still covered.

Most sites don’t use AI that triggers a disclosure duty — and Klarvo tells you so clearly, with a clean 100/100 and a green light, instead of staying silent. It then keeps watching: add a chatbot or AI content later and Klarvo will spot it and tell you exactly what to do.

What it does (standalone — no account)

  • Compliance Dashboard. One screen: your readiness score, a traffic light, and every finding with what we found, what the law says, and a button that fixes it.
  • One-minute setup wizard. Auto-detects what it can, asks only what it can’t, then creates your disclosures for you — live on your site.
  • A compliant Article 50 notice. Accessible, isolated in a Shadow DOM so it never collides with your theme, light/dark/auto, badge or bar.
  • Chatbot label. A clear “you’re talking to AI” label at the point of interaction (Article 50(1)).
  • AI content marking. Mark posts or pages as AI-generated, per post or in bulk, with an Article 50(2) disclosure (Article 50(4) for public-interest text).
  • An AI usage statement page, written for you and tailored to your site.
  • Always watching. Re-checks automatically when a plugin or post changes, and keeps your detection registry current.
  • Stays current. A law-change radar tracks how the EU AI Act’s transparency rules are developing — the 2 August 2026 deadline, the AI literacy duty already in force, the Code of Practice being finalised — and flags what affects your site. Reviewed with every update; it’s a signal, not legal advice.
  • Accessible & private. Keyboard-navigable, screen-reader friendly, WCAG AA contrast, respects reduced-motion and colour-scheme. No cookies, no tracking, nothing sent anywhere in standalone mode.

What it adds (with a free Klarvo account — optional)

  • Sync detected tools to Klarvo so your full EU AI Act inventory starts already populated.
  • App-managed disclosure text pulled straight into your notice.
  • Manage multiple sites and keep a durable record from one place.

Honest about the law

Klarvo is a technical transparency tool, not legal advice, and installing it does not by itself make you legally compliant. A few things worth knowing (a lot of advice online gets these wrong):

  • There is no small-business exemption from Article 50 — it applies to organisations of every size.
  • You don’t have to label every AI-assisted blog post — Article 50(4) targets public-interest text published without human review.
  • The high-risk rules were deferred, but Article 50 keeps its 2 August 2026 date.

Klarvo is the EU AI Act compliance platform for European SMEs. Learn more at https://klarvo.io.

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Installation

  1. Install and activate the plugin.
  2. Klarvo scans your site immediately and opens a one-minute setup — it sets your disclosures up for you.
  3. Visit AI Transparency in your admin menu any time to see your readiness score and findings.
  4. Optional: paste a linking code from your Klarvo account (Integrations Connect a site) to enable connected features.

FAQ

Do I need a Klarvo account?

No. The scan, the readiness score, the Article 50 notice, the wizard and content marking all work fully on their own. An account only adds optional syncing, app-managed text and multi-site management.

My site doesn’t use AI. Is this plugin still useful?

Yes — that’s exactly when peace of mind matters. Klarvo confirms you’re covered, then keeps watching so that if you add a chatbot or AI content later, it spots it and tells you what to do. You never have to remember to check.

Does it send any data to external servers?

In standalone mode, no — nothing leaves your site. If you connect a Klarvo account, the plugin talks only to Klarvo’s API to sync your detected tools and pull your disclosure text. The detection registry refresh uses a public, anonymous endpoint.

Will it slow my site down?

No. The notice loads after your page (deferred), renders in an isolated Shadow DOM, and adds no layout shift. The scan runs in your admin, not on visitor page loads.

Does installing this make me legally compliant?

No, and we won’t pretend otherwise. Klarvo is a technical transparency tool that helps you find and disclose the AI on your site. It is not legal advice.

Is the notice accessible?

Yes — it is keyboard-navigable, screen-reader correct, meets WCAG AA contrast, and respects reduced-motion and colour-scheme preferences.

I’m upgrading from 2.x — will my settings survive?

Yes. Your display settings and any AI content declarations are preserved, and your notice keeps working. You’ll see the new dashboard with your current status, and you can run the setup any time. If you previously connected an account, you’ll be asked to reconnect once.

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Contributors & Developers

“Klarvo AI Transparency for EU AI Act” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

4.1.0

  • New: Law-change radar — a “rules last reviewed” date and a curated, dated view of how the EU AI Act’s transparency rules are developing (Article 50’s 2 August 2026 date, the AI literacy duty already in force, the Code of Practice and guidelines being finalised), flagging what’s relevant to your site. Honest by design: it’s a signal, not legal advice, and it never scaremongers.
  • New: AI Act Readiness Report — a dated, shareable report (save it as a PDF from your browser) showing the AI on your site, your Article 50 obligations, and the disclosures in place. Your proof you checked. Not legal advice.
  • New: Deepfake / AI-image labelling (Article 50(4)) — mark a realistic AI-generated or manipulated image in your Media Library and Klarvo adds a clear, visible “AI-generated” label wherever it appears. Optionally preserve Content Credentials (C2PA) when WordPress resizes images. Honest about the law: the machine-readable watermark is the AI provider’s duty (50(2)); the visible label is yours (50(4)), and you needn’t label every AI-touched graphic.
  • New: AI-literacy pack (Article 4) — Article 4 is already in force. Klarvo generates a short, site-specific AI-literacy briefing for your team and keeps a simple acknowledgement register, both downloadable as a dated record. A proportionate way for a small team to show it’s taken the duty seriously.
  • New: EU AI Act self-assessment — a few honest questions (deployer or provider? chatbot? AI text or images?) produce a tailored checklist of what actually applies to you, a dated record you can keep, and plain-English copy that corrects the things most guidance gets wrong (there’s no SME exemption from Article 50; the penalty tier is the lower of €15m / 3% for SMEs).
  • Non-destructive upgrade from 4.0.x: every setting, declaration, the connection, and your AI usage page are preserved.

4.0.0

  • New: Compliance Dashboard — an AI Act Readiness score (0–100) and a Covered / Action needed / At risk traffic light, with plain-English findings and one-click fixes.
  • New: Setup wizard that scans your site and sets up your disclosures for you — the Article 50 notice, an AI usage statement page, a chatbot label, and AI-content labelling.
  • New: First-class “no AI detected” state — a clear “you’re covered” instead of silence, plus an always-on watchtower that re-checks when your site changes.
  • New: Point-of-interaction chatbot label (Article 50(1)) and an exact greeting snippet for your bot.
  • Improved: honest, misconception-busting guidance and a clear “not legal advice” position throughout.
  • Non-destructive upgrade from 2.x/3.x: settings and content declarations are preserved; your notice keeps working.

3.0.0

  • Rebuilt for the Klarvo v2 platform and a new, versioned API contract.
  • Unified, Shadow-DOM transparency notice shared with the Klarvo embeddable widget — light/dark/auto themes, badge or bar styles, full accessibility.
  • Detection registry expanded to 1,800+ AI tools, kept current automatically.
  • Connected features now use a secure site token.
  • Non-destructive upgrade from 2.x.

2.0.2

  • Detection registry and stability improvements.