Gardaí are investigating 200 reports of Grok-generated images of suspected child sexual abuse.
The head of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau confirmed the figure before the Oireachtas Media Committee today, where the issue of so-called 'nudification' apps were discussed.
Work & Technology Correspondent Brian O'Donovan told Behind the Story it all stems back to a Grok update late last year.
"It allowed you to digitally undress an image of a person – the problem for Grok is it doesn’t distinguish whether that person is an adult [or] child," he said.
"The problem is the legislation cannot keep up with the pace of the technology as it evolves".
Brian said the legislation that is there is fragmented.
"We have a few different separate bits of legislation in this area, and perhaps that is where confusion is coming in," he said.
"What exactly was the crime and how is it going to be investigated?
"If you’re doing in a Coimisiún na Meán/online safety/Digital Services Act way, that has to be done in conjunction with the European Commission.
"If it’s one individual creating an item and it is in blatant breach of the law, that would the gardaí investigating that person".
Brian said there can be a downside to raising awareness of this issue.
"What happened in the last few days? Grok became the most downloaded app in Ireland and around the world," he explained.
Evelyn O’Rourke and Karen Creed also speak with retired architect and former CEO of Fingal County Council, David O’Connor, about the future of Dublin City Council offices at Wood Quay.
The council has said the cost of retrofitting the building, which was controversially built on a Viking settlement, could cost up to €400m.
Mr O’Connor said there is still more to discover at the site.
"There was a very large part of the site that not allowed to be built on because it was never excavated and it still hasn't been excavated," he said.
Mr O’Connor believes more work needs to done to look at the possibilities of staying on the site, rather than constructing a new building.
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