LONDON

The Irish government should work with the other EU members during its EU presidency later this year to change EU-wide legislation to ban AI models that generate intimate images, the country's advisory council said Friday.

The State Artificial Intelligence Advisory Council said Ireland should use its upcoming presidency of the Council of the EU to ban AI tools that generate intimate images and child sex abuse material, The Irish Times newspaper reported.

Ireland will assume the rotating Presidency of the Council of the EU from July 1 to Dec. 31, 2026.

The advisory council has warned that "high-velocity, automated abuse" associated with models such as X’s Grok is likely to become "increasingly common."

The Irish government should "use the Irish EU presidency to work with the other EU member states" to change EU-wide legislation to "include the prohibition of AI practices," it said.

The experts group also urged the government to publish guidance explaining how potential victims of image-based sexual abuse can report the potential crime and preserve evidence.

Nations across the world accelerated scrutiny of xAI’s Grok, an artificial intelligence chatbot, amid concerns that the tool can be used to generate non-consensual, sexually explicit, and manipulated images.

Recently, the chatbot was shown to respond to prompts that digitally remove clothing from images of people or otherwise alter their appearance into sexualized content, often without the consent of those depicted.

On Thursday, X said the Grok AI function would no longer allow users to manipulate photos of people to appear in revealing clothing in places where such actions were illegal.