European Commission launched an investigation into Grok, the AI tool which is part of the social media platform X<\/a>, over its use of sexually explicit images, including potential child sexual abuse material.<\/p>\nIt followed outcry over the spread of sexually manipulated images, including those of children.<\/p>\n
“More than nine months after the Grok\/X scandal, Government has still failed to deliver the changes needed to protect people from AI-generated sexual abuse,” Mr Kelly said.<\/p>\n
“People who have experienced this abuse deserve more than expressions of concern. They need a law that addresses what perpetrators and platforms can now do.<\/p>\n
The Labour TD said that the Bill would “explicitly cover sexual abuse images that someone generates or alters using AI.<\/p>\n
“It would criminalise generating those images without consent for publication or distribution and make it an offence to encourage or knowingly facilitate their generation for that purpose.<\/p>\n
“That responsibility must extend to the companies that provide these tools.<\/p>\n
“Major publishers, including X, Meta, TikTok and Google, must answer for their conduct under the law. Platforms cannot claim to take safety seriously while escaping responsibility for facilitating abuse.”<\/p>\n
Minister of State at the Department of Justice Colm Brophy told the D\u00e1il that the Government would not oppose the Bill as its aims align with the Government’s commitment to a zero-tolerance approach to domestic sexual and gender-based violence.<\/p>\n
He said the coalition shared the “widespread revulsion expressed in this House at the non-consensual nidification of images, primarily of women and children”.<\/p>\n
Mr Brophy confirmed that Minister for Justice Jim O’Callaghan had this week got Cabinet approval to not oppose the bill.<\/p>\n
If the Bill is enacted, it would hold social media executives “criminally liable” for harmful content, Mr Kelly said.<\/p>\n
He said that fines have no impact on social media companies as they build fines “into their baseline”.<\/p>\n
For those companies that habitually allow harmful material onto their platforms, he said, this Bill would hold “the executives of those companies can be held criminally liable”.<\/p>\n
The Bill was updated to take into account the nudification of images which the AI tool Grok allowed nine months ago, the Deputy said.<\/p>\n
Labour TD Ciar\u00e1n Ahern said that online material is encouraging young people to engage in harmful behaviour.<\/p>\n
Online culture “has been allowed to fester”, he said, urging that this be addressed by the adoption of the Bill.<\/p>\n
Minister Brophy noted that there are several Bills before the House that aim to tackle this problem.<\/p>\n
Mr Kelly said any of them, or any combination, could be used as long as something is enacted quickly.<\/p>\n
Mr Brophy outlined existing statutory measures which govern this area, and commended Mr Kelly for his work on the Bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Government is not opposing a proposal from the Labour Party to strengthen the law around tackling AI-generated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,219,61,60,80],"class_list":["post-679850","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-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679850","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=679850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}