{"id":227798,"date":"2026-03-26T08:49:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/eu-backs-nude-app-ban-and-delays-to-landmark-ai-rules\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T09:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:45:19","slug":"eu-backs-nude-app-ban-and-delays-to-landmark-ai-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/eu-backs-nude-app-ban-and-delays-to-landmark-ai-rules\/","title":{"rendered":"EU backs nude app ban and delays to landmark AI rules\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/901315\/eu-ai-act-delays-ban-nudify-apps\">EU backs nude app ban and delays to landmark AI rules\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/901315\/eu-ai-act-delays-ban-nudify-apps\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/901315\/eu-ai-act-delays-ban-nudify-apps<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-26 08:49:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.theverge.com\">www.theverge.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">European lawmakers have voted to delay key parts of the EU AI Act, the bloc\u2019s flagship law for regulating artificial intelligence, while also backing proposals to ban nudify apps.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The measures, approved by a large majority in the European Parliament, would push back compliance deadlines for developers of high-risk AI systems \u2014 those deemed to pose a \u201cserious risk\u201d to health, safety, or fundamental rights \u2014 until December 2027. Companies developing AI systems covered by sector-specific safety rules like toys or medical devices would have even longer to comply, with a proposed deadline of August 2028. Rules requiring providers to watermark AI-generated content would also be delayed until November 2026. All of these measures had originally been set to take effect this August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Members also backed proposals to include a ban on nudify apps in the revised AI Act. There are no details on what this might look like, though it \u201cwould not apply to AI systems with effective safety measures preventing users from creating such images.\u201d The decision follows widespread outrage in the EU over the flood of Grok\u2019s sexualized deepfakes on X earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">The vote extends a period of uncertainty for businesses operating in Europe, which have already faced delays after the EU missed its own deadlines to publish key guidance and changed elements of the law. It is also unclear whether the proposed changes can be implemented before the original August deadline, as parliament cannot unilaterally change European law. Parliament must now negotiate with the European Council, a body made up of ministers from all 27 member states, over the final text.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/901315\/eu-ai-act-delays-ban-nudify-apps\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EU backs nude app ban and delays to landmark AI rules\u00a0 https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/901315\/eu-ai-act-delays-ban-nudify-apps Publish Date: 2026-03-26&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":227799,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/03\/STK450_EU_E.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&crop=0%2C9.9676601489831%2C100%2C80.064679702034&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-227798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227798"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227800,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227798\/revisions\/227800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}