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\u00d3scar L\u00f3pez, the digital transformation minister, said the law addresses a growing public demand for digital safety.<\/p>\n
“Today is the definitive step,” Mr L\u00f3pez told a post-cabinet press conference. “Some 77 per cent of the Spanish population wants more protection for their digital rights in the face of AI.”<\/p>\n
Under the new penalty regime, offences will be classified into three tiers: minor, grave, and very grave.<\/p>\n
Minor infractions face fines of up to \u20ac500,000 or 0.5 per cent of a company’s global turnover. The most severe breaches will trigger maximum penalties of \u20ac35m or seven per cent of global turnover, depending on the severity and intent of the offence.<\/p>\n
The crackdown specifically targets AI systems deemed to pose an “unacceptable risk” to public safety.<\/p>\n
This includes tools used to generate non-consensual sexual “deepfakes” and child abuse material, following recent controversy in Spain over synthetic nude images of minors created using the social media platform X\u2019s virtual assistant, Grok.<\/p>\n
Mr L\u00f3pez said: “There were AI tools known to everyone, including one from a very prominent social media network, being used in Spain by children to impersonate people and use photographs of female classmates to generate sexually explicit images.<\/p>\n
“This was happening, and this is now banned.”<\/p>\n
The legislation also outlaws:<\/p>\n
\u2022 AI chatbots that use subliminal manipulation, such as targeting gamblers to entice them to place bets.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Tech that exploits vulnerable people, including children\u2019s toys that encourage dangerous physical challenges.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Biometric software that classifies people by race, religion, or sexual orientation.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Social scoring systems used to deny individuals access to bank loans or public grants.<\/p>\n
The Spanish measures go a step further than the broader European Union agreement reached on May 7, which established a baseline ban on synthetic intimate content and sexual deepfakes across the bloc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain’s government has approved a new law to crack down on the misuse of artificial intelligence, introducing fines…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30284,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4198,9592,593,15113,2518,15115,15114,17,5104],"class_list":["post-30283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-spain","tag-against","tag-euros","tag-government","tag-impose","tag-million","tag-misuse","tag-penalties","tag-spain","tag-up"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}