{"id":243670,"date":"2026-01-14T06:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243670\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:07:10","slug":"what-happened-to-me-could-happen-to-any-woman-grainne-seoige-warns-ai-abuse-is-threatening-womens-participation-in-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/243670\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What happened to me could happen to any woman\u2019 \u2013 Gr\u00e1inne Seoige warns AI abuse is threatening women\u2019s participation in politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\">Broadcaster has written to TDs and senators calling for \u201curgent action\u201d to be taken against AI apps \u201cenabling sexual abuse imagery\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gr\u00e1inne Seoige. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20ba1f10-d06a-4605-bc97-c1a4b56dbaa4.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)\">Gr\u00e1inne Seoige. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">Gr\u00e1inne Seoige, who said she felt like \u201cvomiting\u201d with distress after an AI-generated pornographic image of her was circulated during her election campaign, has called for \u201curgent legislative reform\u201d to protect others.<\/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)\">The broadcaster, who ran unsuccessfully for Fianna F\u00e1il in Galway West in the 2024 general election, has written to the Justice Minister and Oireachtas members, appealing for \u201curgent action\u201d to be taken against AI apps \u201cenabling sexual abuse imagery\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Broadcaster has written to TDs and senators calling for \u201curgent action\u201d to be taken against AI apps \u201cenabling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,2334,219,24119,61,60,1226,80,19247],"class_list":{"0":"post-243670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","11":"tag-artificialintelligence","12":"tag-eavan-murray","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-meta","16":"tag-technology","17":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243670","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=243670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}