Draft law implementing EU's AI Act sets out prison sentence for rule-breakers
Individuals who remove watermarks from AI-generated deepfakes could face jail time under a Greek draft law transposing the EU’s AI Act into national legislation.
The ruling New Democracy party has long complained about the toxicity of online political debate, arguing it encourages attacks on politicians, but its sense of grievance appears to have deepened ahead of national elections scheduled for 2027.
The bill, which is expected to be voted on in parliament this week, had already gone through a public consultation but a last-minute amendment has now been introduced aiming to beef up rules around deepfakes, or AI-generated synthetic media that could pass as real.
Under the EU AI law’s transparency rules, AI-generated deepfakes must be labelled as such – for example by displaying a symbol that states “AI”. (Though artworks, satire and news articles, along with some other categories, are exempt from the labelling rule.)
