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Momentum builds for EU AI Act to ban sexualized deep fakes

By Luca Bertuzzi ( February 4, 2026, 15:19 GMT | Insight) -- A growing group of EU countries including Spain, France, Ireland and Slovenia is backing a ban in the AI Act on generating sexualized deep fakes and non-consensual intimate content, prompted by the Grok scandal. While momentum is building across the parliament and governments, legal constraints may limit adding new prohibitions in the current AI Act amendment package.A growing coalition of EU member states is backing the introduction of a new prohibition under the flagship AI law to ban the production of non-consensual intimate content, but the initiative may face legal limitations, MLex has learned....

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