Emerging AI regulation is moving fast to require machine-readable transparency disclosures on AI-generated content.
By the end of 2026, the EU AI Act's transparency obligations under Article 50 will be fully in effect. Penalties for non-compliance are steep - up to €15 million or 3% of global annual turnover, whichever is higher. Time is short.
The industry is rapidly converging on C2PA as the digital standard for "machine-readable" provenance, and the strongest available standard for conforming with Article 50(2) currently.
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) has been working on content provenance since 2021. It runs a formal Conformance Program that ensures generator, validator and certificate authority products actually meet their rigorous spec and security requirements.
Why we built Monolith
We originally built Monolith to help the media industry record copyright claims and distinguish human vs AI provenance. We pursued C2PA conformance so Monolith would be the easiest way for anyone to adopt the C2PA standard - to enhance everyone's provenance capabilities.
At the time, we didn't realize that achieving conformance would make us the easiest way to comply with the EU AI Act's Article 50(2) and other emerging AI regulations demanding machine-readable transparency disclosures, but here we are - insight is always sharpest in hindsight.
What makes Monolith different
Monolith is C2PA conformant as a Generator, with conformance across more C2PA-supported formats than any generator granted to date. In fact, Monolith is format-agnostic, so it can generate provenance data even for new and emerging file formats that C2PA has yet to formally recognize.
Monolith is also the only conformant Generator that can generate C2PA manifests for ML Models themselves, not just the content they produce. So if you build ML Models, we're unique in our ability to support you.
And because we originally developed Monolith with Hollywood in mind, Monolith is also the only Generator designed specifically for privacy and confidentiality. We can generate a signed, tamper-evident C2PA manifest using just your file's hash, without needing to see your file's contents. So enterprises concerned with privacy and confidentiality now have an avenue for adopting C2PA with confidence.
Speed, scale, simplicity, privacy, confidentiality, breadth of formats, affordability, and robustness - these all converge in Monolith to make us the easiest way for enterprises to adopt C2PA and comply with machine-readable transparency disclosures.
If C2PA is your path to Article 50(2) compliance, get in touch so we can support your efforts.