Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Musk’s son Romulus, is suing for ‘pain and mental suffering’ caused by fake AI images generated by the Grok chatbot.
The mother of Elon Musk’s son is suing his artificial intelligence company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to Create sexually exploitative deepfake images It caused her humiliation and emotional distress.
The lawsuit was filed just before California Attorney General Rob Bonta sent a letter to Musk’s xAI company demanding it stop manufacturing and distributing Grok-generated products. Dissatisfying sexual images.
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“The avalanche of reports detailing this material — sometimes depicting women and children engaged in sexual activity — is shocking — and, as determined by my office, potentially illegal,” Bonta said Friday.
Ashley St. Clair, a writer and political commentator, alleged in a lawsuit filed against xAI in New York City on Thursday that she was the victim of sexual deepfake images generated by Grok.
St. Clair, who is the mother of Musk’s 16-month-old son, Romulus, said she reported to Musk’s X social media platform, which hosts Grok, when they appeared last year and asked for their removal.
The platform responded that the images did not violate its policies, she said. He then promised not to use or alter her images without her consent. Later, the social platform retaliated against her by removing her Premium X subscription and verification checkmark and continued to allow her abusive fake images, she said.
“I have suffered severe pain and suffering as a result of xAI’s role in creating and distributing these digitally altered images of me,” St. Clair said in documents attached to the lawsuit.
“I’m humiliated and I feel like this nightmare will never stop as long as Grok keeps making these images of me,” she said.
‘public nuisance’
On Thursday, xAI’s lawyers countered St. Clair in federal court in the Northern District of Texas, alleging that she violated the terms of her xAI user agreement that would require a lawsuit against the company to be filed in federal court in Texas. She is seeking an undisclosed financial judgment against her.
St. Clair’s attorney, Carrie Goldberg, called the countersuit a “shocking” move that she had not seen by a defendant before.
“Ms. St. Clair will vigorously defend her forum in New York,” Goldberg said in a statement.
“But frankly, any jurisdiction would recognize the significance of Ms. St. Clair’s claim — that by creating objectionable sexually explicit images of girls and women, xAI is a public nuisance and not a reasonably safe product.”
In an interview with US media earlier this week, St Clair said her fight with Groke was “not just about me”.
“It’s about building systems, AI systems that can mass produce and abuse women and children without consequences. And what’s happening right now really has no consequences,” she told CNN.
” they say ‘We’re going to make it illegal, where it’s illegal’. It is devoid of all ethics and guess what, if you want to add safety after harm, it is not safety at all. That’s just damage control,” she said.
Musk’s Grok is already under scrutiny and dealing with it International reaction To create clear deepfake images in the United Kingdom, the European Union and other jurisdictions including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Japan.
Japanese authorities said Friday that they were also investigating X on Grok and said all options were being considered to prevent the creation of inappropriate images.