{"id":274866,"date":"2026-01-08T22:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274866\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T22:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T22:34:10","slug":"ai-assistant-grok-soars-to-top-of-irish-app-download-charts-amid-sexual-imagery-controversy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/274866\/","title":{"rendered":"AI assistant Grok soars to top of Irish app download charts amid sexual imagery controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<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\">xAI, the division of X that oversees Grok, claims that Ireland is not its \u2018lead regulator\u2019 within the EUTaoiseach rejects suggestion that legislation is not strong enough to deal with issueWomen\u2019s Aid removes itself from X, calling the crisis a \u2018tipping point\u2019Teachers\u2019 union INTO said the harmful content could have \u201cdevastating consequences for children\u2019s mental health\u201dHuman rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher said such sexualised abuse of children online has \u2018devastating\u2019 impacts\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Grok AI tool is being used to create sexually explicit images on social media site X. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1767911650_706_520ef237-3b51-411c-b7b6-010cbd7ebd3a.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)\">The Grok AI tool is being used to create sexually explicit images on social media site X. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Weckler, Mary Regan and Keith Kelly<\/p>\n<p>Today at 13:33<\/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)\">Hotline.ie, the Irish online service designated to deal with reports of non-consensual image abuse, has received no submissions or complaints in recent days about X\u2019s AI engine, Grok, synthetically undressing photos of women and minors, according to its chief executive.<\/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)\">It comes as Grok has hit the top of the app download charts in Ireland, with Apple leaving a teen-friendly \u201813+\u2019 rating on the services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 xAI, the division of X that oversees Grok, claims that Ireland is not its \u2018lead regulator\u2019 within&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274867,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[15807,291,289,3498,290,18,1647,19,17,6644,5765,4772,82,4709],"class_list":{"0":"post-274866","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-adrian-weckler","9":"tag-ai","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","12":"tag-artificialintelligence","13":"tag-eire","14":"tag-elon-musk","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-mary-regan","18":"tag-micheal-martin","19":"tag-peter-burke","20":"tag-technology","21":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115861865309329642","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274866","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=274866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}