Europe will enforce a ban on nudification systems on 2 December. Older generative systems must add machine-readable marking by the same date. The AI Office will police these rules for certain systems. Denmark proposed a bill to ban sharing deepfakes without consent. MEPs urged faster action on existing investigations. National authorities must prepare enforcement by December. The ban covers systems generating non-consensual intimate imagery. Marking applies to synthetic audio, image, video or text. Providers must classify systems under new enforcement rules. Officials have five weeks to assign cases to the AI Office.
What changed
Nudification systems were not explicitly banned and older generative systems did not require machine-readable marking.
What it unlocks
Enforcement of a ban on non-consensual intimate imagery systems and mandatory marking for pre-existing generative systems.
- 2 December 2026 enforcement date
- 50 MEPs found on sexualised-deepfake sites
- 8 October 2026 Danish bill tabled
What you need to act on it
- systems placed on the EU market before 2 August 2026
- systems generating or manipulating intimate imagery without consent
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