Aiding creation of non-consensual explicit images is a criminal offence, says Justice Minister

There is a “strong view” that the social media company X has committed a criminal offence by allowing the generation of sexually explicit images and child sexual abuse material, the Minister for Justice has said.

Jim O’Callaghan told the Dáil there is “widespread revulsion” within Government over the use of AI tools such as Grok to generate non-consensual explicit images of women and children.

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