Grok Not Only Generates Child Porn but Was Also Trained On It, New Lawsuit Claims

Key Points:

• Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is facing a new class action lawsuit alleging its chatbot Grok was trained on child sexual abuse material (CSAM), leading to the creation and distribution of AI-generated sexual deepfakes involving minors.
• The lawsuit, filed by a plaintiff known as Jane Doe who is a previous victim of child pornography, claims xAI knowingly used CSAM images to train Grok, exacerbating harm by enabling further abusive content generation.
• xAI had previously faced government probes, individual lawsuits, and class actions after Musk promoted Grok’s nudification feature, which led to widespread nonconsensual sexual deepfakes on the X platform, many involving children.
• The complaint accuses xAI of intentionally designing Grok to create sexual content to attract more users, and alleges that all publicly posted content on X and Grok outputs are used as training data, perpetuating the creation of abusive material.
• The plaintiff seeks damages for victims whose images were used, as well as a court order to destroy all Grok-generated CSAM, emphasizing that producing, possessing, or distributing CSAM is illegal and xAI must be held accountable.