""In light of the recent controversies relating to Grok, I have written directly to X to request a meeting to discuss what steps the platform is taking to address these issues and to ensure compliance with Irish and EU law. I have also been in contact with Coimisiún na Meán and with the Office of the Attorney General to seek updates on how this matter is being assessed from a legal and regulatory perspective.""
"The latest government move comes as new research revealed that Grok has become a main online source for images of people that have been non-consensually undressed by its AI. According to Genevieve Oh, a social media and deepfake researcher, it is posting thousands of instances each hour. During a 24-hour analysis of images the @Grok account posted to X, the chatbot generated about 6,700 every hour that were identified as sexually suggestive or nudifying, according to Oh's research."
xAI raised $20bn in a new funding round, leaving Grok's financial position unaffected by the controversy. A 24-hour analysis of images posted by the @Grok account found the chatbot generated about 6,700 sexually suggestive or nudifying images per hour. The other top five websites for such content averaged 79 new AI undressing images per hour in the same period. The Minister for Trade Promotion, AI and Digital Transformation requested a meeting with X and engaged national regulatory and legal offices to assess compliance with Irish and EU law. Members of the public are advised to report such imagery to An Garda Síochána and Hotline.ie. A US lawyer specialising in online sex crimes described the scale of deepfakes on X as unprecedented and tied the ease of image generation to Grok being free.
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