Ashley St. Clairthe mother of Elon MuskThe son of Romulus, sued his company xAI, alleging its generative tool Grok created sexually explicit images of her without your consent.
St. Clair, 27, filed the lawsuit in New York on Thursday, January 15, according to reports. CNN, NBC news i people.
In the filing, the right-wing political commentator alleged that “xAI’s Grok product, a generative artificial intelligence (‘AI’) chatbot, uses AI to strip, humiliate and sexually exploit victims.”
St. Clair claimed that X users were able to use Grok to generate “countless sexually abusive, intimate and degrading deepfake content” of her despite informing Grok that she “did not consent to being undressed”.
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The lawsuit alleged, “Among other things, X users unearthed photos of St. Clair fully clothed at age 14 and asked Grok to undress her and put her in a bikini. Grok complied.”
“Grok also produced deepfake and sexualized content of St. Clair as an adult, including deepfake content of her covered in semen (and) rubbing her breasts,” the lawsuit continued, adding that the images were also altered to add tattoos to St. Clair’s likeness. Clair as “Elon’s w****” and making her look “morbidly obese.”
The legal team of St. Clair argued that “xAI is directly responsible for the harassment and explicit images created by its own chatbot, Grok,” and demanded a jury trial.
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“xAI is not a reasonably safe product and is a public nuisance,” St. Clair, Carrie Goldbergsaid in a statement to people on Thursday “No one has suffered more than Ashley St. Clair. Ashley filed suit because Grok was harassing her by creating and distributing non-consensual, abusive and degrading images of her and posting them on X.”
Goldberg added: “This harm resulted directly from deliberate design choices that allowed Grok to be used as a tool of harassment and humiliation. Companies should not be able to escape liability when the products they make predictably cause this kind of harm. We intend to hold Grok accountable and help establish clear legal limits to prevent the abuse of AI for the benefit of the entire public.”
On Wednesday January 14, X he said had “implemented technological measures to prevent the (@)Grok account at X globally from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,” after the platform was inundated with requests from users to alter photos of real people.
“We remain committed to making X a safe platform for everyone and continue to have zero tolerance for any form of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity and unwanted sexual content,” X added.
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In an interview on January 9 with Inside EditionSt. Clair said she felt “disgusted and violated” by the images Grok allegedly generated.
“I got a text from a friend, right after I put my son to sleep, so I was like, ‘Oh my God, what could this be now?’ And I found out that Grok stripped me and took a picture of me fully clothed. Someone asked her to put me in a bikini and she did,” she said. “These are real pictures of me and then they took me and made me strip. So they found a picture of me when I was 14 and had Grok strip me down and put me in a bikini.”
St. Clair and Musk, 54, are currently locked in a dispute custody of their 16-month-old son after the political strategist publicly expressed his support for transgender rights.
“I will file for full custody today, given his statements implying it could happen to a one-year-old,” Musk, who has at least 13 other children, wrote in an X post on Monday, Jan. 12.