{"id":518911,"date":"2026-03-12T10:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518911\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T10:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T10:29:12","slug":"eu-set-to-ban-ai-nudification-apps-in-wake-of-grok-scandal-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/518911\/","title":{"rendered":"EU set to ban AI nudification apps in wake of Grok scandal \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

That changed Tuesday when the Cypriots floated a near-final text that backs a ban on AI systems <\/a>that can generate images, video or audio \u201cof an identifiable natural person’s intimate parts or of an identifiable natural person engaged in sexually explicit activities.\u201d<\/p>\n

The inclusion of a ban is a win for countries such as Spain that had strongly pushed for it. EU ambassadors are set to greenlight the text on Friday.<\/p>\n

European Parliament lawmakers agreed Wednesday to include language to ban an \u201cAl system that alters, manipulates or artificially generates realistic images or videos so as to depict sexually explicit activities or the intimate parts of an identifiable natural person, without that person’s consent.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, the agreement reached in a political meeting Wednesday notes a ban would not apply to companies \u201cwho have put effective safety measures [in place] to prevent the generation of such depictions and to avoid misuse.\u201d<\/p>\n

The text is not yet final, with the Parliament\u2019s lead committees set to vote on it March 18.<\/p>\n

The Parliament and Council will then meet to agree a final version before a ban becomes law.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday the Parliament also called upon the Commission to \u201cinvestigate measures to protect individuals against the dissemination of manipulated and AI-generated digital image, audio or video content\u201d as part of a separate report on AI and copyright. <\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is maybe a joke for one for 10 seconds, can bring lasting damage to a victim,\u201d said Dutch Greens lawmaker Kim van Sparrentak on Monday.<\/a> \u201cHigh time to ban all of these apps.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That changed Tuesday when the Cypriots floated a near-final text that backs a ban on AI systems that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":518912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[182,181,507,7255,23517,30432,7259,11,35199,104581,112,7380,8453,10497,8978,2785,234454,3662,74],"class_list":["post-518911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-companies","tag-copyright","tag-cyprus","tag-digital","tag-elon-musk","tag-intelligence","tag-kim-van-sparrentak","tag-markets","tag-negotiations","tag-parliament","tag-platforms","tag-regulatory","tag-safety","tag-sergey-lagodinsky","tag-spain","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/518912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}