{"id":273730,"date":"2026-01-08T07:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273730\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T07:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T07:49:09","slug":"ministers-scramble-for-legal-block-on-explicit-ai-images-on-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/273730\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers scramble for legal block on explicit AI images on X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Ministers may quit platform as Grok \u2018undresses\u2019 women and children\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Minister Peter Burke. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/bdca85a6-a41c-43d2-84ed-0b9825d46e00.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Minister Peter Burke. Photo: Brian Lawless\/PA<\/p>\n<p>Mary Regan and Adrian Weckler<\/p>\n<p>Today at 06:30<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ministers are scrambling to find a way to combat an explosion of digitally created images of semi-nude women and children on the social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Amid growing alarm in Government over the proliferation of deepfake sexual abuse images, the junior minister with responsibility for AI, Niamh Smyth, has written to senior executives of the Irish offices of X seeking an urgent meeting over the impact of its Grok artificial intelligence (AI) tool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ministers may quit platform as Grok \u2018undresses\u2019 women and children Enterprise, Tourism and Employment Minister Peter Burke. Photo:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[15807,3498,79,18,1647,19,17,6644,4772,4709],"class_list":{"0":"post-273730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-mary-regan","16":"tag-peter-burke","17":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115858387211806227","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}