{"id":289633,"date":"2026-01-17T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289633\/"},"modified":"2026-01-17T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-17T18:21:09","slug":"protesters-at-x-headquarters-in-dublin-call-for-criminal-accountability-over-ai-nudes-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/289633\/","title":{"rendered":"Protesters at X headquarters in Dublin call for criminal accountability over AI nudes \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

An online function that undresses images of people without their consent is not a tool but \u201ca weapon\u201d, a protest outside the Dublin headquarters of X<\/a> has been told. <\/p>\n

Saturday\u2019s demonstration heard that the Grok<\/a> AI app on Elon Musk<\/a>\u2019s social media platform was one such \u201cweapon\u201d which exploits children and adults for profit. <\/p>\n

A former content moderator with Twitter, now X, said a \u201cdrastic reduction\u201d in the number of content moderators had taken place on the platform since it became X. She called for those responsible for the design and release of such functions to be held accountable.<\/p>\n

The former content moderator, who gave her name as Rosanna, said there had been \u201ca drastic shrinking of moderation teams and loosening of safety policies\u201d, since Twitter had become X. <\/p>\n

She said this was \u201call in the name of free speech\u201d, but added that across social media, \u201cwe are witnessing the deliberate release of AI features that undermine this principle of safety\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cThousands of sexualised deepfakes of women and children are generated with a single click,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt is criminal. And as such, the people responsible for its design and release should be held accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Boyd Barrett, a People Before Profit TD for D\u00fan Laoghaire, called for the garda\u00ed to investigate X. \u201cYesterday we learned that more than 200 investigations are already under way.\u201d <\/p>\n

Mr Boyd Barrett said social media platforms were putting the responsibility for tools like Grok on the users of such technology. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe Government here has been dragging its heels. Last week I suggested the Garda be sent in and [Taoiseach] Miche\u00e1l Martin accused me of Big Brother tactics, asking who did I want to turn the police on next. But of course, because of public outrage they have now changed their tune and they were forced to talk of legislation, of enforcement,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Mr Boyd Barrett said social media platforms which allow tools to be used to generate images of adults and children \u201cshould now be criminally responsible for what they have already done.\u201d<\/p>\n

X has been contacted for comment. <\/p>\n

On Friday, the Minister with responsibility for artificial intelligence (AI), Niamh Smyth, said X had conceded it hosted content that is illegal in Ireland following a meeting with the company. <\/p>\n

The company said it has halted Grok\u2019s ability to remove or reduce clothing on individuals. However, Ms Smyth said it did not take responsibility for the content created by the app. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An online function that undresses images of people without their consent is not a tool but \u201ca weapon\u201d,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,18,1647,5066,19,17,76775,90612,82,879],"class_list":{"0":"post-289633","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-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-elon-musk","13":"tag-grok","14":"tag-ie","15":"tag-ireland","16":"tag-niamh-smyth","17":"tag-richard-boyd-barrett","18":"tag-technology","19":"tag-x"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115911831238881809","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289633","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=289633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}