• The EU has agreed to ban AI applications for creating sexualized deepfakes.
  • The ban will apply from December 2, 2026, enforced by the EU’s AI Office.
  • The ban explicitly includes content depicting child sexual abuse.
  • Deepfakes have become easier to create due to advances in artificial intelligence.
  • The EU already has a directive criminalizing the creation and distribution of manipulated sexual content without consent, but it has not yet been fully transposed into national law.