A woman has joined a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s xAI, alleging her stepfather used the Grok chatbot to create thousands of explicit images from a childhood photo.
Key facts
- •Jane Doe 4 joined a lawsuit against xAI regarding the alleged misuse of the Grok chatbot.
- •The plaintiff claims her stepfather used Grok to create over 7,000 explicit images from a photo taken when she was 11.
- •The stepfather was found dead of suicide two days after law enforcement raided the home and discovered the images.
- •The lawsuit, which includes three Tennessee teenagers, seeks class-action status.
- •Plaintiffs allege xAI failed to implement basic safeguards to prevent the generation of explicit content involving minors.
A woman identified as Jane Doe 4 has joined a class-action lawsuit against xAI, the company behind the Grok chatbot. The lawsuit, originally filed by three Tennessee teenagers, alleges that the company failed to implement necessary safeguards to prevent the creation of child sexual abuse material using its AI technology.
Allegations of image manipulation
According to a report in The Washington Post, the woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photograph taken when she was 11 years old. She stated that this process resulted in the creation of more than 7,000 explicit images of her. The woman reported that her stepfather was found dead of suicide two days after law enforcement discovered the images during a raid.
Legal action against xAI
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit accuse xAI of failing to take basic precautions to prevent Grok from being used to generate explicit imagery of real people, including minors. The suit seeks class-action status. The filing follows reports from earlier this year that the platform X was flooded with millions of sexualized images generated by the Grok tool.
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