EU countries, lawmakers clinch provisional deal on watered-down AI rules
The deal adds a ban on non-consensual sexual deepfakes and gives companies more time to meet high-risk compliance rules.
- On Thursday, European countries and the European Parliament agreed to watered-down artificial intelligence rules, delaying implementation in a move critics say shows Europe caving to Big Tech.
- Prompted by business complaints about overlapping regulations and red tape hampering competition with Asian rivals, the European Commission pushed for simpler digital rules as part of its broader regulatory simplification drive.
- European governments and the European Parliament agreed to delay high-risk AI system rules to December 2, 2027 from August 2 this year, while excluding machinery from the Act to address business concerns.
- The Act includes a ban on artificial intelligence practices creating unauthorized sexually explicit images, responding to deepfakes produced by Grok, according to Dutch lawmaker Kim Sparrentak.
- Cyprus deputy minister for European affairs Marilena Raouna stated, "Today's agreement on the AI Act significantly supports our companies by reducing recurring administrative costs." Cyprus holds the rotating Council presidency.
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EU bodies tentatively agree new AI rules including ban on ‘nudifier apps’
EU countries and European Parliament lawmakers on Thursday agreed to watered-down landmark artificial intelligence rules, including delaying their implementation, in a move critics say shows Europe caving in to Big Tech.
The Member States of the European Union (EU) and the European Parliament reached an agreement on Thursday to ban artificial intelligence services (IA) in their territories that allow people to be “naked” without their consent and to create false sexual images.The initiative arises, among other reasons, after some months ago Grok, the artificial intelligence assistant of the social network X of Elon Musk, incorporated a function that allowed user…
The EU has agreed on a provisional AI Act with simplified rules regarding artificial intelligence, entirely in line with Brussels' trend towards simplification. Berlin and European industry score a victory in the process, and Silicon Valley is also chuckling to itself: the rules have been postponed.
The European Parliament and the Member States of the EU — both co-legislators — have reached an agreement this Wednesday morning to explicitly prohibit the creation of artificial intelligence (AI) images without consent, thus retouching the AI law adopted by the EU at the time and which was a pioneering norm.
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