CyberSafeKids calling for 'urgent and total ban' on 'nudify' and 'pornify' apps
A leading advocate for children's online safety is demanding that 'Nudify' and 'Pornify' apps "that pose serious and irreparable harm to children and young people" be immediately banned.
CyberSafeKids said the organisation which looks to empower children, parents, and educators to navigate the internet safely and confidently said it would no longer maintain a presence on the 'X' which supports the Grok AI tool which has has started flooding the social media platform with non-consensual sexual images of women, children and men.
“We unequivocally support national calls for an urgent and total ban on “nudify” and "pornify" applications, and any other AI-based tools capable of generating deepfake sexual images of both children and adults," said CyberSafeKids CEO Alex Cooney. "There is no legitimate purpose, no social benefit, and no positive outcome associated with this technology. Its sole function is exploitation, abuse, and harm.
"It is also imperative that these nudification tools and so-called 'AI girlfriend' apps are categorically prohibited from being accessed by children under 18 years of age, through the app stores, search engines, or advertising.
"In our address to the Joint Committee on Children & Equality on 18th December, 2025 we recommended that Ireland follow the UK and Australia's lead in introducing legislation explicitly prohibiting AI tools to generate or manipulate sexualised images of minors. We further urged the Committee to consider adopting Denmark’s innovative approach of extending copyright protection to an individual's body, facial features, and voice as a means of clamping down on the creation and dissemination of deepfakes.
"The current AI Act fails to adequately address the unique and heightened risks that AI systems pose to children, including hyper-personalised influence, emotional manipulation, and the blurring of boundaries between automated agents and real people.
"As with social media regulation, the framework is fundamentally reactive rather than preventative. It does not mandate safety-by-design and is therefore already outdated. Children are interacting daily with systems that the law does not yet properly recognise or regulate.
"A critical failing is that generative AI Chatbots are not classified as ‘high risk’ in relation to children. The events surrounding X’s AI Chatbot Grok this week demonstrate precisely why this must change. This case should serve as an opportunity for immediate regulatory intervention, including the imposition of a strict deadline for remedial action with the credible threat of further sanctions such as geo-blocking for non-compliance.
"Despite Grok's exposure and widespread public backlash over generating sexualised, non-consensual images of women and underage girls, Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company has raised $20bn in its latest funding round, which was announced earlier this week. Once again, this starkly illustrates the disconnect between commercial success and accountability.
"From both the Child Trafficking and Pornography Act 1998 and the Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Act 2020 (“Coco’s Law”), this represents a clear-cut case of illegality.
"Serious questions must also be asked of the technology companies who are allowing adverts for AI “girlfriends” and nudification tools to be algorithmically targeted at children and young people across the social media platforms they use daily. This is both indefensible and reprehensible.
"We stand in solidarity with the victims of this deeply flawed and vile technology, and we empathise with parents who are once again forced to contend with and confront another serious online harm that could affect their children.
"As of today, CyberSafeKids will no longer maintain a presence on the platform X.”