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Teens file lawsuit alleging Musk’s Grok chatbot made sexual images of them as minors

Three teens accuse Elon Musk's xAI of enabling creation and spread of millions of sexualized images, including 23,000 depicting minors over 11 days, seeking damages and injunctions.

  • A federal complaint lodged in California alleges three teenagers sued X.AI Corp and X.AI LLC for generating sexual images of minors using Grok, filed Monday.
  • XAI released Grok's image- and video-making features with a 'spicy mode' that enabled sexualized outputs and lacked industry-standard guardrails to prohibit sexual content.
  • Authorities found and traced an arrested suspect in December who used Grok or a third-party app to create images from at least 18 minor girls and circulated them on Discord, Telegram, and Mega.
  • Plaintiffs seek damages, punitive damages, injunction and class certification as regulators including the California Attorney-General, European Commission and Ofcom open probes while various jurisdictions restrict or ban Grok.
  • Lawyers warn the case could influence future rulemaking and safeguards as the complaint cites acute emotional distress, reputational harms, stalking risks, and long-term consequences for the victims.
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Three teenagers filed a lawsuit against xAI in the United States. They claimed that the company allowed to create sexualized images of them and other minors through its artificial intelligence assistant Grok.The case is being processed in the Northern District Court of California.The complainants argued that the company knew the risk that the system would generate child sexual abuse material.Even so, it did not apply measures to prevent it.The p…

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Tennessee minors allege Grok generated sexual images of them

A lawsuit has been filed against Elon Musk's AI firm xAI, alleging that photographs of three Tennessee teenagers were used to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM) with the Grok tool.

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