The Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence has said she is considering leaving X, saying it may be the most impactful way to send a message to the platform amid growing concern over the dissemination of explicit AI-generated images.<\/p>\n
Niamh Smyth, Fianna F\u00e1il TD for Cavan-Monaghan, told Newstalk Breakfast that several other TDs and ministers were considering doing the same.<\/p>\n
Ms Smyth is seeking a meeting with X over Grok AI turning photos of women and minors into sexually suggestive deepfake images.<\/p>\n
She told Newstalk that the circulation of these images was illegal under both Irish and European law, and that there already was \u201ca very robust framework in place\u201d to prevent dissemination.<\/p>\n
I have written to X… they’re a little bit elusive here in Ireland, a little difficult to pin down – Niamh Smyth<\/p>\n
\u201cI’ve heard a lot of debate over the last 24 hours about strengthening the laws and ensuring that they’re robust, but from my understanding of the Irish law and EU law… we have those laws in place,” she said.<\/p>\n
Ms Smyth said that the focus should be on enforcement rather than creating new legislation.<\/p>\n
Charity Women’s Aid has also called for the urgent implementation of legislation to ban such AI tools. Speaking on RT\u00c9 radio\u2019s Morning Ireland, CEO Sarah Benson urged greater regulation of the sector, along with the banning of the IP that allows \u201cnudify\u201d apps.<\/p>\n
This level of violence and abuse being perpetrated by the platform’s own tools is just unconscionable – Women’s Aid<\/p>\n
Women’s Aid will stop using X because of the \u201cunconscionable levels\u201d of misogyny, racism and anti LGBT content on the platform.<\/p>\n
Ms Benson said that X \u201cwas supposed to be the online town hall where you could engage in constructive, discursive debate, where you can learn what was going on in the world.<\/p>\n
“But we’ve recognised for quite some time without any kind of moderation, there has been a serious problem with that platform for a while.<\/p>\n
“This level of violence and abuse being perpetrated by the platform’s own tools is just unconscionable.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence has written to X seeking a meeting, saying they are “a little bit elusive here in Ireland, a little difficult to pin down”.<\/p>\n
She said that she would be telling X, \u201cthis is not legal, it is not acceptable, it is apparent, and it should be stopped.<\/p>\n
“X have their own safety measures in place too, and they’re breaking their own guidelines in terms of what is safe to disseminate among the public on the platform.”<\/p>\n
Ms Smyth also said that she was hoping for \u201ca whole of government\u201d approach on the issue, and that enforcement requires regulator Coimisi\u00fan na Me\u00e1n working with the European Commission and garda\u00ed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence has said she is considering leaving X, saying it may be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-234276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}