{"id":245679,"date":"2026-01-15T07:49:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:49:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245679\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T07:49:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:49:08","slug":"grok-blocked-from-undressing-images-where-it-is-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/245679\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok blocked from undressing images where it is illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk’s platform X has announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real people, following global backlash over its generation of sexualised images of women and children.<\/p>\n

X said it will “geoblock the ability” of all Grok and X users to create images of people in “bikinis, underwear, and similar attire” in those jurisdictions where such actions are deemed illegal.<\/p>\n

“We have implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,” X’s safety team said in a statement.<\/p>\n

“This restriction applies to all users, including paid subscribers,” they added.<\/p>\n

The statement comes just hours after California’s attorney general launched an investigation into Mr Musk’s xAI – the developer of Grok – over the generation of “non-consensual, sexually explicit material” in recent weeks.<\/p>\n

International pressure had been building on xAI to rein in Grok after a feature allowed users to create sexualised deepfakes of women and children.<\/p>\n

Garda\u00ed have said there are 200 active investigations into child sexual abuse-related images generated by Grok<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It comes after the head of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau, Detective Chief Superintendent Barry Walsh, confirmed there is an ongoing investigation in relation to Grok.<\/p>\n

\"Prime
\nNiamh Smyth said that Grok should be banned in Ireland if X fails to abide by Irish law<\/p>\n

Government ministers are to meet next week to decide how best to combat AI-generated and child sexual abuse-related content.<\/p>\n

The matter was discussed at a meeting between the Taoiseach and the Minister for State with responsibility for AI Niamh Smyth yesterday. A round table meeting will take place next week.<\/p>\n

Minister Smyth has said that Grok should be banned in Ireland if X fails to abide by Irish law regarding the creation of sexualised images of both children and adults.<\/p>\n

Speaking on RT\u00c9’s Prime Time, the minister said laws are in place regarding the creation and dissemination of AI-generated sexual imagery and that enforcement is needed.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Ofcom media regulator said it was opening a probe into whether X failed to comply with UK law over the sexual images.<\/p>\n

France’s commissioner for children Sarah El Hairy said she had referred Grok’s generated images to French prosecutors, the Arcom media regulator and the European Union.<\/p>\n

Indonesia became the first country to block access to Grok entirely, with neighbouring Malaysia following.<\/p>\n

India said that X had removed thousands of posts and hundreds of user accounts in response to its complaints.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk’s platform X has announced measures to prevent its AI chatbot Grok from undressing images of real…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-245679","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\/245679","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=245679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}