Minister wants X meeting over ‘disturbing’ Grok concerns

https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2026/0107/1551973-grok-concerns-minister/

Posted by KeepShtumMum

18 Comments

  1. mrbuddymcbuddyface on

    All state agencies should stop using Twitter to communicate with the public.
    It’s owned by a far right white nationalist fascist, to promote his fascist visions.

  2. Before the bots come in to down voted this, at this point X should be proscribed and not available at all.

  3. Plastic_Detective687 on

    In China earlier, Martin seemed to downplay this by saying people were using the tools for bad purposes. I’d like to understand what he thinks the good purposes are for the non consensual pornographic image and csam generator is

    Edit: I was corrected below, it wasn’t Martin who did condemn this in stronger terms, it’s Patrick O’Donovan the media minister who’s saying the tools are fine

  4. Ok_Engine_9822 on

    But did they have the meeting to plan the meeting? Or those that meeting need a committee?

  5. ResponsibleTrain1059 on

    How the heck can the government push for ID requirements for the Internet while doing nothing to regulate twitter/X from hosting child sexual abuse content?

    ISPs should be ordered to block twitter until they get their house in order.

    This feels like a test to see if governments will regulate social media snd clearly they are not prepared to do so even in this most extreme situation.

  6. blipblopthrowawayz on

    “We need to bring in new rules on internet access to protect children”

    Also

    “We don’t want to do anything with this social media platform that’s normalising and promoting making sexual images of women and children without their consent…..”

    It’s gotten really fucking grim on Grok with stuff like people openly making porn of the Stranger Things kids (not the actors in their 20’s, the very younger kids in season 5)

  7. What do you wanna meet about? It’s cresting child sex images. Ban the fuckin thing. Show some spine ffs

  8. What can be done? X is the number one news app in Ireland at the moment.

    This is crazy.

    Not only that, Grok just hit the #1 rank in three categories on the Ireland App Store.

    Top App

    Top Overall

    Top Productivity

    X is the number one in every European country for news now.

    This is terrible.

  9. Imagine if it was Rte/the journal/Irish times etc doing this … they would be shut down immediately….

  10. Mobile-Surprise on

    Should the people using it for making porn using illegal images not be at fault? I don’t really know how Twitter/Xx works. but if someone makes real illegal porn and They are caught and prosecuted. we don’t blame the camera they used to film it.