EU lawmakers deal to ban AI non-consensual intimate deepfakes

A March 11 political agreement on AI Act amendments will add an explicit prohibition on non-consensual intimate AI-generated images, direct fallout from the Grok scandal.

It took a scandal, a wave of regulatory anger, and a coalition of 57 European Parliament members to get there,  but the EU’s landmark AI Act will now contain an explicit ban on non-consensual sexual deepfakes.

On 11 March 2026, EU lawmakers struck a political deal on a package of amendments to the bloc’s AI law, with the prohibition of AI-generated non-consensual intimate images, including child sexual abuse material, emerging as one of the most contested and consequential items in the agreement.

The deal, brokered between centre-right and centre-left lawmakers in the European Parliament, also includes eased compliance rules for AI systems embedded in sector-regulated products such as medical devices and industrial machinery.

The package forms part of the broader AI Act Omnibus ...