Why officials want to go after platforms, not users
Officials “want to introduce a new ban on so-called ‘nudifier’ systems that use AI to create or manipulate images that are sexually explicit or intimate and resemble an identifiable real person without that person’s consent,” the press release explained. However, “the ban would not apply to AI systems with effective safety measures preventing users from creating such images,” officials said.
As Bloomberg noted, the ban would radically shift the EU’s approach to regulating explicit deepfakes, moving beyond just prosecuting users to also punishing platforms. The Grok scandal “epitomized” why such a regulatory shift was needed, Bloomberg reported, noting that “this
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