Social media platform X is “breaking the law” by facilitating the generation of explicit images of women and child sexual abuse images (CSAM), AI minister Niamh Smyth has said. Ms Smyth said it is “deeply worrying” that explicit images have been shared on X, while also criticising the social media firm for allowing their generation through its AI chatbot Grok. It is its AI chatbot creating this imagery and facilitating these shocking, outrageous images to be created in the first place. I’m not a legal mind, but in my mind because they are facilitating, it would be breaking the law. The junior minister urged people impacted by sexually explicit images generated through Grok to report to the Gardaí, Coimisiún na Meán and the Irish Internet Hotline.

Source: Irish Examiner January 09, 2026 01:19 UTC