{"id":255266,"date":"2026-01-21T01:14:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255266\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T01:14:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T01:14:14","slug":"grainne-seoige-to-tell-oireachtas-that-ai-sexualised-images-will-be-abuse-scandal-of-the-21st-century-if-action-not-taken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255266\/","title":{"rendered":"Gr\u00e1inne Seoige to tell Oireachtas\u00a0that AI\u00a0sexualised images \u2018will be\u00a0abuse scandal of the 21st\u00a0century\u2019, if action\u00a0not taken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Gr\u00e1inne Seoige. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/119377531.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>Maeve McTaggart, Mary Regan and Senan Molony<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday at 22:29<\/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 will tell TDs and senators that AI-generated sexualised images \u201cwill be the abuse scandal of the 21st century\u201d if urgent action is not taken.<\/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)\">An AI-generated pornographic image of Ms Seoige was created and circulated during the last general election, a situation she has described as \u201cdeeply traumatic\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gr\u00e1inne Seoige. Photo: Steve Humphreys Maeve McTaggart, Mary Regan and Senan Molony Yesterday at 22:29 Gr\u00e1inne Seoige will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,8938,45,218,2334,219,895,61,60,15552,25081,1226,1843,2042,80,6116,19247],"class_list":{"0":"post-255266","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-alan-kelly","10":"tag-an-garda-siochana","11":"tag-artificial-intelligence","12":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","13":"tag-artificialintelligence","14":"tag-fianna-fail","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-maeve-mctaggart","18":"tag-mary-regan","19":"tag-meta","20":"tag-micheal-martin","21":"tag-senan-molony","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-tiktok","24":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266","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=255266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}