Can the EU stop 'nudification' apps?

Published connected 15/05/2026 - 14:47 GMT+2•Updated 18/05/2026 - 9:01 GMT+2

First popularized successful 2017, these apps person evolved astatine an alarming rate: they usage generative AI to analyse the contours of a clothed taxable and render a synthetic bare assemblage successful its place. Through precocious diffusion models, they tin nutrient high-resolution, photorealistic results from a azygous societal media photograph successful seconds.

As of 2026, deepfake porn apps person been downloaded much than 705 cardinal times worldwide. Reports bespeak a 118% summation successful 2024 unsocial and a tenfold emergence successful AI incidents by aboriginal 2026, of which 99% progressive women. Part of this surge progressive Grok, Elon Musk’s chatbot, generating millions of non-consensual sexually explicit images of women and children.

On May 7th, EU lawmakers reached a woody to explicitly prohibition nudification apps, describing it arsenic a motivation and ineligible “red line”. The agreements keeps AI systems chiefly intended for "undressing" radical successful images, oregon depicting identifiable individuals successful sexually explicit scenarios without their consent, from being utilized oregon placed successful the EU market. The enforcement mechanics requires developers and app stores to region these services by December 2026 oregon look terrible fiscal penalties.

Do you hold with this ban? Should the EU bash much astir these apps? Our canvass is anonymous and takes lone a fewer seconds to complete. The results volition beryllium featured crossed EU-wide XL sum - successful videos, articles and newsletters - and volition assistance signifier our reporting arsenic we analyse however Europe tin unafraid its presumption successful the property of artificial intelligence.