US EditionEU States Back Ban on AI Generating Sexualised Deepfakes
EU bans AI from creating non-consensual sexual and child abuse content and sets deadlines for high-risk AI rules, with some delays until December 2027 and August 2028.
- On Friday, ambassadors backed a ban on AI systems generating sexualised deepfakes, targeting "practices regarding the generation of non-consensual sexual and intimate content or child sexual abuse material", a spokesperson for Cyprus said.
- The decision followed an outcry over images produced by Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok and a January investigation opened by the European Commission into the platform hosting the tool.
- Ambassadors also approved fixed delays for high-risk AI rules: December 2027 for stand-alone systems and August 2028 for embedded systems, amending the bloc's comprehensive AI rulebook.
- Lawmakers are set to approve the ban during a vote by committees on Wednesday, though the measure becomes law only after the European Parliament and member states negotiate a final text.
- If enacted, the ban will reshape compliance obligations for AI developers and platforms such as Grok, as the European Commission's January probe and delayed enforcement timelines intensify regulatory pressure.
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The EU is taking action against AI applications for sexual deepfakes: The 27 EU countries have voted in favor of a ban on AI applications that can be used to create sexualized images of real people without their consent.
The 27 will advocate in the negotiations to simplify European regulation on Artificial Intelligence (AI) a ban on technologies that generate images or voices of people for non-consensual or pedophilic sexual material; while they accept Brussels' idea of delaying the entry into force of restrictions on "high-risk" categories but with a staggered schedule for autonomous (December 2027) and integrated (August 2028) systems.
Brussels - European Union member states want to ban artificial intelligence (AI) practices that allow the creation of fake sexual or nude images of real people. EU ambassadors agreed on this today in Brussels, approving an amendment to the Artificial Intelligence Act. The EU Council, which represents the member states, announced this today.
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