Niamh Smyth, Fianna Fáil TD for Cavan-Monaghan, told Newstalk Breakfast that several other TDs and ministers were considering doing the same. Ms Smyth is seeking a meeting with X over Grok AI turning photos of women and minors into sexually suggestive deepfake images. Charity Women's Aid has also called for the urgent implementation of legislation to ban such AI tools. She said that she would be telling X, “this is not legal, it is not acceptable, it is apparent, and it should be stopped. "X have their own safety measures in place too, and they're breaking their own guidelines in terms of what is safe to disseminate among the public on the platform."

Source: The Herald January 08, 2026 16:48 UTC