EU Moves to Ban AI That Creates Nonconsensual Sexual Images

Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Connecting decision makers to a dynamic network of information, people and ideas, Bloomberg quickly and accurately delivers business and financial information, news and insight around the worldAmericas+1 212 318 2000EMEA+44 20 7330 7500Asia Pacific+65 6212 1000Elon Musk’s X:Artificial intelligence tools that can be used to create nonconsensual sexual images may be banned in the European Union, following outcry after users used Elon Musk’s Grok service to generate thousands of undressed pictures of women and children.The European Parliament’s civil liberties committee on Wednesday approved the bloc’s draft text of its Artificial Intelligence Omnibus law. That included an amendment to outlaw any AI system that generates realistic images “so as to depict sexually explicit activities or the intimate parts of an identifiable natural person” without their consent.