Set by the law · AI Act Art. 5(1)
Prohibited AI practices
In plain English
AI uses that the AI Act bans outright. Under conditions set in Article 5 they include manipulative or deceptive techniques, AI that makes intimate images of identifiable people without consent, and untargeted scraping of facial images.
The official text
The following AI practices shall be prohibited: (a) the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of an AI system that deploys subliminal techniques beyond a person’s consciousness or purposefully manipulative or deceptive techniques … (ba) the placing on the market, the putting into service or the use of an AI system that generates or manipulates realistic images, videos, audio or similar material of an identifiable natural person’s intimate parts … (e) the placing on the market, the putting into service for this specific purpose, or the use of AI systems that create or expand facial recognition databases through the untargeted scraping of facial images from the internet or CCTV footage
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