Digital Code, Chapter 23: AI interaction and deepfake disclosure duties

Digital Code, Law No. 178 (18 June 2025), in force 6 February 2026, Chapter 23, Art. 197

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In force 7 months, effective 6 February 2026.

An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 7 September 2026.

What it requires

An app that lets a natural person interact with an AI system must tell that person they are dealing with an AI system, unless the interaction is obviously with one.
An app that uses an AI system to recognize a person's emotions or to classify a person by biometric characteristics must inform that person the system is being applied to them.
An app that uses an AI system to create a deepfake must disclose that the material's origin or content was artificially produced or altered.
These disclosure duties may be skipped only for a lawful defense, national-security or crime-prevention purpose, or, for the deepfake duty only, a lawful exercise of scientific, technical, artistic or educational freedom, and only with measures in place to protect the rights the disclosure would otherwise serve.

What it reaches

Obligation class

Disclosure, Content labelling

What this law does

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Art. 197, read in full, requires an owner or user of an AI system who applies it to interact with natural-person consumers to inform them they are dealing with an AI system, unless that is obvious from context; a user of a system that recognizes emotion or classifies a person by biometric characteristics must inform that person the system is being applied to them; and a user who applies such a system to create deepfakes must disclose that the material's origin or content was artificially produced or altered.

The consumer-interaction and biometric-classification duties are excused where disclosure would defeat a lawful defense, national-security, or crime-prevention purpose, and the deepfake duty is separately excused for lawful use protecting those same interests or exercising freedom of scientific, technical, artistic or educational creation, each excused case still conditioned on measures protecting the rights the disclosure would otherwise serve.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

text of Chapter 23 (Systems of Artificial Intelligence)
Article 197, of the Digital Code of the Kyrgyz Republic, Law No. 178 of 31 July 2025, reproduced by ИС Континент (continent-online.com), a commercial CIS legal-database mirror

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