{"id":243237,"date":"2026-01-14T00:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243237\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T00:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T00:43:13","slug":"ai-minister-niamh-smyth-says-x-should-be-banned-if-it-does-not-abide-by-irish-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243237\/","title":{"rendered":"AI Minister Niamh Smyth says X should be banned if it does not abide by Irish law"},"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\">The Coalition is coming under growing pressure to take stronger action over the Grok AI toolHolly Cairns earlier highlighted \u201cvile\u201d prompts submitted to Grok in the D\u00e1ilThe Taoiseach has promised \u201crobust\u201d response to nudification prompts\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"AI minister Niamh Smyth (Photo: Tom Burke)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/f7796277-20a5-4420-9e48-664bb413dc5a.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)\">AI minister Niamh Smyth (Photo: Tom Burke)<\/p>\n<p>Tabitha Monahan, Senan Molony and Maeve McTaggart<\/p>\n<p>Today at 00:00<\/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)\">Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence Niamh Smyth has said that social media platform X should be banned in Ireland if it fails to comply with online safety laws.<\/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)\">Pressure is mounting on the Coalition to take tougher action over the Grok AI tool, amid widespread concern about its use to manipulate images of women and children by digitally removing their clothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LATEST\u00a0|\u00a0 The Coalition is coming under growing pressure to take stronger action over the Grok AI toolHolly Cairns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,898,80],"class_list":["post-243237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243237","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=243237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}