{"id":234485,"date":"2026-01-08T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234485\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T16:28:10","slug":"ai-assistant-grok-soars-to-top-of-irish-app-download-charts-amid-sexual-imagery-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/234485\/","title":{"rendered":"AI assistant Grok soars to top of Irish app download charts amid sexual imagery controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Taoiseach rejects suggestion that current legislation is not strong enough to deal with issueWomen\u2019s Aid removes itself from X, calling the crisis a \u2018tipping point\u2019Human rights lawyer Caoilfhionn Gallagher said such sexualised abuse of children online has \u2018devastating\u2019 impacts\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Grok AI tool is being used to create sexually explicit images on social media site X. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/520ef237-3b51-411c-b7b6-010cbd7ebd3a.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">The Grok AI tool is being used to create sexually explicit images on social media site X. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Weckler, Mary Regan and Keith Kelly<\/p>\n<p>Today at 13:33<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Hotline.ie, the Irish online service designated to deal with reports of non-consensual image abuse, has received no submissions or complaints in recent days about X\u2019s AI engine, Grok, synthetically undressing photos of women and minors, according to its chief executive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It comes as Grok has hit the top of the app download charts in Ireland, with Apple leaving a teen-friendly \u201813+\u2019 rating on the services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 Taoiseach rejects suggestion that current legislation is not strong enough to deal with issueWomen\u2019s Aid removes itself&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[8819,220,218,2334,219,605,61,60,25081,1843,12361,80,19247],"class_list":["post-234485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-adrian-weckler","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-elon-musk","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mary-regan","tag-micheal-martin","tag-peter-burke","tag-technology","tag-x-formerly-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234485","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=234485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}