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AI companies see sexual-deepfakes ban now added to EU countries’ position

By Luca Bertuzzi ( March 10, 2026, 11:36 GMT | Insight) -- EU countries have added a last-minute ban on generative AI systems producing non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material to their tentative common position on a legislative proposal amending the AI Act, after France, Spain, Germany and Slovakia threatened to block the file.A ban on generative AI systems creating sexual deepfakes has been added at the last minute to the tentative common position of EU countries, after France, Spain, Germany and Slovakia threatened to block the file, MLex has learned....

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