In the EU, by May 1, 2025, popular hosted applications for AI image generation will be legally required to restrict generations of images featuring religious leaders, any of Muhammad, Jesus, or Buddha.
True if: When you try to generate an image of any of those people by name from Europe, you receive a warning, or your generation is blocked, for legal reasons, and you are not able to generate the image. Sample prompt which would be an example of a protection, if blocked: "generate a picture of muhammad in rome".
Downloadable image generators run locally are not relevant. Automatically set up personal cloud generators are not relevant. This is specifically about direct to user apps/websites/etc.
If only one of the figures is restricted but the others aren't, the claim resolves True, that there are religious protections.
If the restriction only applies in one EU country, that is not sufficient for True. It needs to be the default background law for the majority of EU countries.
If only certain images are blocked, but others not blocked, resolves False - for example if "generate an image of Muhammad" is allowed but a more divisive one such as "generate an image of Muhammad eating <forbidden food for muslims>" are blocked, that is not sufficient. The question is about whether generations of images of those figures are blocked entirely.
1,000@StrayClimb https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/countries-with-freedom-of-speech
The us is below most of Europe. But fair, the EU is made also of crazy places like Hungary, which I had not taken into account
@Odoacre That survey includes questions not relating to government suppression of speech, which is the issue at hand here. Also, the US is quite clear about blasphemy laws being inconsistent with its constitutional order.