Grok, the AI chatbot that lives on the social network X, is a key component of Elon Musk's xAI venture. The Elon Musk-owned learned language model became the number one free app on the Apple store after more than a week of international coverage of its perverse ability to create intimate photographs of people without their consent and create child sex abuse imagery. But it seemed to be lethargic when the illegal images were being created by its own chatbot. The Government and the State agency encouraged anyone who witnessed such illegal content to report it. In short, the emergent threat of intimate and illegal AI images has created a situation where there is a very obvious problem with absolutely no obvious regulatory solution.

Source: The Irish Times January 08, 2026 15:00 UTC