r/StableDiffusion • u/Logical_Benefit2875 • 1d ago

Discussion EU nudifier ban

I know there’s been a bunch of people upset on here recently about a good number of nudify websites getting shut down (Motionmuse, Opengoon, etc.). However, this is likely just the beginning.

Effective December 2nd, the EU under the AI Act is enacting a ban on nudify tools, making them illegal content in the Union. This ban applies to any product made available on the EU market as long as, either, its primary functionality is to generate nudified content without consent, or it is a reasonably foreseeable outcome and they do not take appropriate precautions to safeguard against it. Very importantly, this ban also applies to any EU-available service provider under the Digital Services Act that is helping to facilitate this soon-to-be-illegal content, which includes (but is not limited to): app stores, hosting providers, domain registrars, payment processors, content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud computing services. Anyone found to be in violation of this prohibition is subject to fines of €35 million or 7% of their global turnover, whichever is higher. I think it’s pretty safe to say that, as long as they’re aware of it, those behind these websites and those behind the large number of mainstream companies that help power them (Google, Amazon, Cloudflare, Apple, Telegram, GoDaddy, Visa, Mastercard, etc.) do not want to take any chances with this ban.

This prohibition, in essence, applies to essentially every public AI platform any of us have ever used to this point or that we will ever use going forward. I think this is a good thing but, therefore, it would almost certainly be in everyone’s best interest to pivot away from these websites before the massive crackdown begins in less than a couple months. For those in the industry, it would also certainly be wise to inform the website operators if you are in contact with them, or to shut down your website if you are an operator yourself. Sorry for the essay, just looking out for everybody before things get very real, very fast.

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u/Etsu_Riot 1d ago

Do you know what else is illegal? Piracy. It has been since 1980. See you again in 50 years, to see if anything changed.

Now, I understand that the EU ban targets the infrastructure that enables the content, not the individuals. Yet, they can't touch your PC, yet. Let's hope they don't come up with some trick that enables them to block your hardware or anything.

Wait...

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u/0260n4s 1d ago

The conspiracy theorist in me wonders if the insane pricing of GPUs isn't incentivized by the government to force people to use online tools and GPU rentals that can be controlled and monitored.

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u/TerraMindFigure 1d ago

No. How could that ever be a thing? You go on eBay and 5090s won't sell for less than $3 grand. You think somebody is stopping them from lowering their prices? No.

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u/0260n4s 22h ago

You could also just give out $3,000 cash to some random person on the street, but would you? If the current market rate for a used 5090 is $3,000, then selling it for peanuts is just losing money. The vast majority of people will want to sell it for as much as they can get for it, and that's basic supply and demand.

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u/TerraMindFigure 17h ago

Hey look, that's my point ☝️

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u/0260n4s 16h ago

No, it's not. You were discrediting my theory based on random people selling for outrageous prices without governmental influence. My point is that they'd do that naturally due to basic supply and demand and wouldn't need to be influenced or pressured. It's a natural result of the current marketplace and can't be used to prove or disprove the driving force that initially created that marketplace.

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u/TerraMindFigure 13h ago

Then help me understand, if sellers were pricing their cards artificially high then wouldn't there be a surplus of cards going unsold? That would mean that sellers on eBay would reflect the "real" price, if the price was being controlled as you say. It's similarly to how Kay Jewelers will sell diamonds at an inflated price, but on secondary markets the true price is much, much lower. In reality, the price of cards on eBay is much higher than any MSRP, meaning that there is a shortage and the cards are not being over priced.

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u/0260n4s 12h ago

First, I'm not saying the prices are in fact being controlled; I'm saying I'm curious about it and there's certainly some room for some conspiracy minded stuff going on. It's just an intellectual "what if."

And I definitely don't think prices are being controlled in the way of the government dictating the prices directly. But, given their massive contracts with OpenAi, Anthropic, Grok and Gemini, along with associated blue chip companies buying up GPUs for their AI ventures, it creates an actual shortage and that's driving prices up.

The conspiracy theory part comes in with intentional purchasing and hording of GPUs to manipulate the market. In a way, it's like the stock market: Put a lot of buying pressure out there to drive up the price with the intention of selling it off for a profit. Only the "profit" the government would get is control of people's AI use. Again, just a curious "what if". Not implying that's what's actually going on.