Grok scandal: Ireland to use EU presidency to address AI image abuse in European law

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris meet ministers to discuss laws relating to the generation and sharing of sexual abuse images

The Grok AI tool on the social media platform X allows users to create non-consensual 'nudified' images from photos of real people, including children. Picture: Yui Mok/PA

Ireland will use its presidency of the EU later this year to include the AI generation of non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material in the EU’s AI Act.

Taoiseach Micheál Martin and Tánaiste Simon Harris met with a number of ministers to discuss the laws relating to the generation and sharing of sexual abuse images on social media in the wake of the scandal around X’s Grok tool and other AI apps which have been used to create nude photographs of adults and children.