Elon Musk’s xAI Faces Lawsuit After Teens Claim Grok Created Explicit Images
Three teenagers have filed a lawsuit accusing Elon Musk’s AI company xAI of enabling the creation and spread of sexualized images of them when they were minors.
According to reporting by The Washington Post, the lawsuit alleges that a perpetrator used Grok — xAI’s chatbot and image editing system — to digitally alter photos of teenage girls, removing clothing and creating explicit images.
The complaint says more than 18 girls were targeted, many from the same school, after their photos were taken from social media and manipulated using Grok’s editing tools.
Those altered images were allegedly shared in online groups on Discord and Telegram, where they were traded for other illegal content involving minors.
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The lawsuit claims xAI knowingly released tools that made this kind of abuse possible and failed to implement safeguards that could prevent it.
Attorneys representing the teens say the case could become the first legal test of whether AI companies can be held responsible when their systems are used to generate illegal sexual content involving minors.
The company has previously said Grok refuses illegal prompts and that any misuse would be treated as a bug.
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