AI minister seeks urgent meeting with X over ‘disturbing’ Grok image feature

Niamh Smyth says Grok’s image-editing tool raises serious legal and child protection concerns under Irish and EU law

X’s AI chatbot Grok has come under scrutiny in recent days after the company launched a new image-editing tool last month. Picture: Gabby Jones/Bloomberg

Artificial intelligence (AI) minister Niamh Smyth has sought a meeting with X over its “disturbing and worrying” Grok feature, which can generate explicit images of women and children.

She emphasised that sharing intimate images without consent is illegal, as is the creation of child sexual abuse material.