MEP Nina Carberry has called on the European Commission to immediately launch a full investigation into X, following the rollout of Grok AI tools that generate sexualised and nude images, almost one month ago.
It comes as Carberry, an MEP for Midland North-West Constituency, met with Ireland’s Online Safety Commissioner, Niamh Hodnett this week to discuss how the Irish regulator is responding to reports of women and children being targeted through AI generated deepfakes.
Despite growing concern, the European Commission, which is responsible for enforcing the EU’s Digital Services Act on platforms such as X, has yet to launch a formal investigation.
Speaking from Strasbourg, MEP Carberry said it was unacceptable that such AI tools were rolled out across the EU without robust safeguards.
“Almost one month after the Grok chatbot began generating AI deepfake nude images as part of it’s so called ‘spicy mode’, the European Commission has failed to act”, Carberry said.
“There was a clear failure in the risk assessment process before Grok began generating this content. Tools capable of generating sexualised images should never go live without robust protections against abuse.”
The Fine Gael MEP last week stressed that the EU already has the power to intervene.
“Article 70 of the Digital Services Act allows platforms to be temporarily suspended where there is a serious risk of EU law being breached.
“And we also have a clear legal basis to ban AI nudifier tools under Article 5 of the EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act.
“These laws were designed to protect users, especially children. But they are meaningless if they are not enforced.
“Right now, Europe’s referee, in this case – the European Commission is unacceptably slow at responding to these developments”, Carberry concluded.
