{"id":287985,"date":"2026-01-16T18:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/287985\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T18:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T18:54:09","slug":"x-refuses-to-come-before-oireachtas-media-committee-over-grok-nudification-scandal-in-deeply-concerning-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/287985\/","title":{"rendered":"X refuses to come before Oireachtas Media Committee over Grok \u2018nudification\u2019 scandal in \u2018deeply concerning\u2019 move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>latest\u00a0|\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AI minister Niamh Smyth (Photo: Tom Burke)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/61b53b4f-f420-4c17-9fdc-4e485350e739.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)\">AI minister Niamh Smyth (Photo: Tom Burke)<\/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)\">Social media platform X has refused an invitation to appear before an Oireachtas Committee next month in a move that has been described as \u201cdeeply concerning\u201d in the aftermath of senior X executives meeting with AI minister Niamh Smyth.<\/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)\">Ms Smyth said \u201cconcerns remain\u201d regarding X\u2019s AI tool Grok as a standalone app following her meeting with X representatives to discuss its response to the ongoing concerns that the tool was used to AI-generate deepfake sexualised images, including child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"latest\u00a0|\u00a0 AI minister Niamh Smyth (Photo: Tom Burke) Social media platform X has refused an invitation to appear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,3498,290,18,19,17,31982,82,4709],"class_list":{"0":"post-287985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-maeve-mctaggart","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115906298986362344","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287985","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=287985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}