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The cabinet acted on an expert report on deepfakes and manipulated real images. Ireland's Data Protection Commission opened a large-scale inquiry into the generative AI functionality of Grok, after users allegedly prompted the Grok account to generate sexualised images of real people, including children. Meta said it removed such content when it was found, and TikTok said such material was categorically prohibited. 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Ireland's Data Protection Commission announced a large-scale inquiry into the Grok functionality.","harm_class":[],"affected_description":null,"protected_class_involved":null,"data_categories_exposed":[],"loss_range_usd":null,"reversibility":null,"downstream_exposure_count":null},"evidence":{"sources":[{"url":"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/17/spain-investigate-social-media-firms-ai-generated-child-sexual-abuse-material","publisher":"The Guardian","date":"2026-02-17","type":"press","title":"Spain to investigate social media firms over AI-generated child sexual abuse material - The Guardian","archived_url":null,"attachment":"first_report","independence":"independent"}],"per_field_confidence":{"context.country":"C","context.industry":"C","event.incident_class":"D","impact.severity":"D","impact.severity_because":"D","event.summary":"C","system.autonomy_level":"D","system.deployment_context":"D","event.trigger":"D","event.detection_method":"D","system.developer":"D","event.date_disclosed":"D","context.denominator_available":"D"},"field_citations":{"context.country":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Spanish government will ask prosecutors to investigate the social media companies X, Meta and TikTok to determine whether they have committed criminal offences by allegedly allowing their AI to generate and disseminate child sexual abuse material."}],"context.industry":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Spanish government will ask prosecutors to investigate the social media companies X, Meta and TikTok to determine whether they have committed criminal offences by allegedly allowing their AI to generate and disseminate child sexual abuse material."}],"event.incident_class":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Spanish government will ask prosecutors to investigate the social media companies X, Meta and TikTok to determine whether they have committed criminal offences by allegedly allowing their AI to generate and disseminate child sexual abuse material."}],"impact.severity":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"On Tuesday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission – which monitors tech companies with European headquarters in Dublin – said the “large-scale” inquiry will focus on the generative artificial intelligence functionality associated with the Grok large language model."}],"impact.severity_because":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"On Tuesday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission – which monitors tech companies with European headquarters in Dublin – said the “large-scale” inquiry will focus on the generative artificial intelligence functionality associated with the Grok large language model."}],"event.summary":[{"source_index":0,"quote":"The Spanish government will ask prosecutors to investigate the social media companies X, Meta and TikTok to determine whether they have committed criminal offences by allegedly allowing their AI to generate and disseminate child sexual abuse material."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"On Tuesday, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission – which monitors tech companies with European headquarters in Dublin – said the “large-scale” inquiry will focus on the generative artificial intelligence functionality associated with the Grok large language model."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"The regulator’s deputy commissioner, Graham Doyle, said it had engaged with X over the alleged ability of users to prompt the @Grok account to generate sexualised images of real people, including children."},{"source_index":0,"quote":"But it said it had an extremely strong stance on child sexual exploitation and on non-consensual intimate imagery – be it real or AI-generated – and removed all such content when it was found."}]},"notes_on_gaps":"The sources state allegations only; no finding of fact or criminal liability is reported. No date of occurrence, date of detection or date of disclosure is stated as an event date (the article is dated 2026-02-17 but no sentence gives the incident date, so no event date was entered). No source says whether the system was an autonomous agent, so agent fields and failure classes were left out. No trigger, root cause, detection method, responsible party, or model version is stated. No control is stated as held, failed or missing in this incident; the TikTok and Meta statements are company claims and were not mapped to controls. Severity 'major' was chosen because a regulator (Ireland's Data Protection Commission) is involved, not for scale; the source calls the inquiry 'large-scale' but gives no bounded count of affected parties. Commentary by Musk and Durov and the Australian ban were judged not part of this incident and omitted. 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