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recommender systems and automated decision-making tools that quietly influence behaviour at scale. This is where the real impact is. System such as Grok, which we have discussed this week, embedded directly in social media platforms demonstrate how quickly AI can shape public discourse when it is trained … live data, optimised for engagement and applied in real-time and, in Grok's case, enables legal non-consensual image manipulation. These systems are not neutral. They reflect incentives, values and commercial priorities. When these priorities conflict with the truth, well-being or democratic norms, the consequences

benefits, we must not lose human contact. Constituents and people need this human contact as they go on. People have spoken about Grok on Twitter being used to make sexual images of children and women. The Minister of State has condemned it and everybody in the House would … make it stronger. I have heard horrendous stories of women who have had sexual images made on Grok without their consent. Earlier this year, and it is at the lower end and I will not compare it, an image of me was AI generated

serious damage. However, imagine the damage nuclear power would cause if it was not regulated properly. I want to speak to the Grok crisis this week. We, as a party, have drafted Bills previously to ban the provision of hardcore pornographic materiel to children. We regularly provide evidence … banned. The damage these screens are doing to our children is incredible. Regarding the nudification tools, there are nudification tools provided by Grok, Merlio AI, SoulGen, Nudify-Online, Undress AI, DreamGF, deepnude-cc, Promptchan.ai and Candy AI. They are all should be criminally banned. The Wan video generation

today. There is a lot to say, and I know I have a short time left on the clock, but people have mentioned Grok and those images that are circulating. It is absolutely appalling that non-consensual images are allowed of males, females or children on any social … media and that has to be regulated in Ireland and Europe. However, I wonder if the owner of Grok had been Greg Brockman or Sam Altman, who are the directors of ChatGPT, whether it would be a very different story with the outrage here. Given the outrage that

strengthen our social media regulation. Recently we have witnessed the proliferation online of sexualised images of children and women made using X's Grok AI tool. This has to be a wake-up call for taking action against the further debasing of the online space. No society should … people - children - like this. Does the Government believe the generation of non-consensual intimate images and child sexual abuse images by the Grok's AI tool on X is a criminal offence? If it is not a criminal offence, will the Government take steps to criminalise

number of weeks, it was not possible to log on to the X app without being confronted by extremely disturbing sexualised imagery. Grok has created thousands of these images with a significant number being child sexual abuse imagery. This is not an online phenomenon. Online abuse … State has skin the game and could be inadvertently somehow complicit in this abusive, illegal action. It is clear from the creation of Grok that X cannot regulate itself. We need to ensure there is a Garda investigation into what has happened. Coimisiún na Meán must be given

have the governance framework in place to respond to it. In regard to all of the issues we have seen this year around Grok and online harms that people are talking about on daily in these Houses, we are not putting our money where our mouth is when

Sport, and now we have this one under the aegis of the Department of enterprise. The other two already do not work, because Grok happened and nothing has been done to combat it. We are now creating a third leg to this bonfire. It just makes no sense

must make sure that we have an overall eye on the development of artificial intelligence and its dangers. We have seen issues with Grok, etc. We do not know where the new-found dangers will be. The fact is that we are talking about a huge amount

embracing the future and protecting our citizens. It is our duty to do both and to do so with foresight and determination. The Grok scandal some months ago, where generative AI was used to create non-consensual sexualised deepfake images of thousands of Irish women and children

have no problem with that. As regards the incident we are dealing with, the programme most people were discussing at the time was Grok but it is not just one programme. It did not stop there, because that kind of ability to use people's images

priorities? Clearly, it persists as a challenge and a problem. As Deputy Ó Cearúil mentioned, this legislation was introduced before the arrival of Grok and so on. Those developments are impacting on society in many different ways. Our first obligation as legislators is to ensure the safety

utilise these tools when necessary and not refer cases back to the EU to investigate, as it has done with X and Grok, rather than using the measures provided for nationally under the recent online safety framework. Laws, rules and regulations are worthless unless they are enforced

yesterday about the urgent need for X to appear before the media committee to answer questions about the generation of inappropriate material via Grok. It is deeply worrying that the Taoiseach made so little effort to ensure that this happens. I strongly urge the Government to take

about the online digital self-harm most common among young girls and cyberbullying resulting in suicidal ideation and worse. Recently, we had the Grok scandal where nudification of children and women was made public and shared at a rate of 6,700 sexualised images per hour. This

number of elements for safe and responsible participation, which would include appropriate and effective regulation of digital content. We have seen the damage Grok can cause and how children are exposed to such dangers and harmful behaviours. This is why we strongly need to stand

conflate the omnibus Bill, which is efforts in relation to innovation, and the protection against harm in the deployment of AI by mentioning Grok and everything related to it. The reality is that, when Coimisiún na Meán came before the joint Oireachtas AI committee last week, it supported

been breaches of the law. On 26 January the European Commission announced the commencement of an investigation into X and the use of Grok to generate and disseminate illegal content under the Digital Services Act. Coimisiún na Meán collaborated closely with the Commission in its preparation

than enough adequate Irish laws for it to use to step up and face down social media companies when harmful AI tools like Grok are used. The Minister mentioned Coimisiún na Meán extensively in his response. Coimisiún na Meán could use the Online Safety Media Regulation Act today

ensure they are enacted with the full rigour they can be in order that we will not have a repeat of the Grok scandal

required now; not next year, not after another review, but now. During the period from 29 December 2025 through to 9 January 2026, Grok is estimated to have generated approximately 3 million sexualised images, including 23,000 that appear to depict children. Let us be absolutely clear

clearly a loophole in the Act. The Government's failure to introduce relevant legislation has become clear in recent months, particularly following the Grok nudification scandal. This Sinn Féin Bill will amend Coco's Law by making three straightforward changes. It will explicitly criminalise the non-consensual creation

actions taken in recent weeks by some individuals regarding Grok AI were deplorable and a response from this House is absolutely necessary. This Bill will address the lacuna that exists within current legislation to cover the generation of intimate images through the use of AI. Zero tolerance should

Teachtaí Devine agus Carthy, as ucht an Bille seo a chur os ár gcomhair. Cuirim fáilte roimh na cuairteoirí atá sa Ghailearaí. The Grok scandal has been the stuff of nightmares, showing us what a dystopian, misogynistic hellscape the Internet can be, its owners conniving villains willing

recent public concerns and considerable political debate arising from the launching by X, on Christmas Day 2025, of a feature powered by Grok to allow editing of images. This feature was used at scale to create harmful and illegal content, in particular the nudification of people, including children