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EU nations on Friday backed a ban on AI programs producing sexualised deepfakes, after an outcry over such pictures produced by Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok.
European ambassadors agreed to ban “practices regarding the generation of non-consensual sexual and intimate content or child sexual abuse material”, a spokesperson for Cyprus, which holds the EU’s rotating presidency, mentioned.
EU member states and the European Parliament launched the ban as a part of the proposals to amend the bloc’s complete guidelines on AI.
EU lawmakers are set to approve the ban throughout a vote by committees Wednesday.
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“It’s not just about individual scandals like Grok. It’s about how much power we are willing to give AI to degrade people,” EU lawmaker Sergey Lagodinsky, certainly one of a number of members of the parliament pushing for the ban, mentioned.
X, the platform on which Grok is obtainable, in January mentioned it had “zero tolerance” for sexualised deepfakes of youngsters and girls, and carried out measures it mentioned would cease such picture creation after the worldwide outrage.
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The European Commission, the bloc’s digital watchdog, in January kickstarted an investigation into Grok below the EU’s on-line content material guidelines.
The ban will develop into legislation after negotiations on a last textual content together with the modifications to the AI rulebook between the EU parliament and member states.
Ambassadors on Friday additionally authorised a set timeline for the delayed utility of high-risk AI guidelines: December 2027 for stand-alone high-risk AI programs and August 2028 for high-risk AI programs embedded in merchandise.
Rules on high-risk AI are because of come into impact in August 2026 and August 2027 until the delay turns into legislation.
(FRANCE 24 with AFP)
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