Austria: MEP Lena Schilling learns that about a dozen websites show or link to AI-generated sexualised images of her, files a police complaint and gets the sites taken offline after about ten days

Der Standard (28 September 2026, Gustav Andree) reports that Lena Schilling felt sick when she first saw AI-generated nude photos of herself on the internet; two weeks earlier the Green MEP had been informed that such websites with sexualised content of her existed. She is quoted: photos of her were used on AI platforms to undress her against her will. After the nausea came anger, and she decided to take legal steps and try to get the sites offline; she and her team documented, reported and filed a complaint with the Austrian police. She was alerted in the course of a survey by the Berlin think tank Agora Digitale Transformation, whose author Benjamin Shultz is examining how many members of the European Parliament and of the 27 national parliaments are affected by fake nude images; a first study of national parliamentarians found deepfakes of nine male and 138 female politicians from 22 EU countries, and the second wave, in which Schilling's sites were found, is ongoing with results expected in about four weeks. About a dozen websites showing sexualised deepfakes of Schilling were found; she is quoted that they filed a complaint, reported the cases to ZARA (the Austrian body against online hate and violence), wrote to the websites directly and reported the pages to search engines, and that it took about ten days until all sites were offline; she notes that invoking copyright worked more reliably with American servers than invoking the prohibited sexualised depiction, and that such sites can always be recreated. Shultz adds that entries often remain in Google search results after sites go down. The Kronen Zeitung and Salzburger Nachrichten (both 28 September 2026), relaying an APA report on a Greens statement, quote Schilling: 'Man hat uns gegen unseren Willen ausgezogen. KI verstärkt Gewalt gegen Frauen, und deshalb braucht es politische Entscheidungen, die uns schützen. Das kann nicht die neue Normalität werden', and that her own case makes her angry for every young woman wondering whether to enter politics. Mimikama (29 September 2026) notes that the Greens' statement counting Schilling among the 138 affected female parliamentarians does not fit, since the published study covered national parliaments only and her case comes from the ongoing second round.

AI-generated sexualised nude images of the MEP were shown on or linked from about a dozen websites; she reports feeling sick and then angry and had to pursue a police complaint and takedowns over about ten days (her account to Der Standard and the Salzburger Nachrichten; her statement via APA).

Schilling says she and her team documented the sites, filed a complaint (Anzeige) with the Austrian police, reported the cases to ZARA, wrote to the site operators and reported the pages to search engines; all sites were offline after about ten days (Der Standard, 28 September 2026). No investigation outcome, suspect or court step is reported. The Greens in the European Parliament used the case to demand enforcement of the EU 'nudifier' ban applying from 2 December 2026 (APA via Krone and Salzburger Nachrichten).