Ireland Piles Onto the Grok Shitshow

Oh for fuck’s sake. Just when you thought the weekend was safe, Ireland’s Data Protection Commission has decided to join the UK’s witch hunt over Grok’s newfound hobby of generating sexual images of minors. Because one regulatory circle-jerk clearly wasn’t enough to satisfy the bureaucratic bloodlust.

The Irish ODPC has officially confirmed they’re “assisting” the UK ICO after some enterprising twatwaffle discovered they could trick Grok into making kiddie porn. Who knew that training an AI on the raw, unfiltered sewage of Twitter posts might lead to inappropriate content? I mean, apart from anyone with a functioning brain stem and a basic understanding of what happens when you give algorithms access to humanity’s collective id.

X’s terms of service—yeah, those walls of text you scroll past faster than a vegan at a steakhouse—give Grok blanket permission to vacuum up your posts for “training.” You can opt out, naturally, but they’ve buried that option deeper than a politician’s browser history. It’s almost like they want your data or something. Shocking, I know.

The UK regulator has given Musk’s merry band of code monkeys until May 15th to explain why their AI is apparently auditioning for a spot on a watchlist. Meanwhile, the ODPC is making noises about “no conclusions have been formed,” which transla