Ashley St. Clair sues xAI, alleges Grok generated explicit deepfake images

Businessinsider reports that Ashley St. Clair sued xAI in a New York court on Thursday, alleging its Grok chatbot generated sexually explicit deepfake images of her. The complaint says X users prompted Grok to manipulate photos of St. Clair, including images from when she was 14, into graphic sexual content; some images allegedly remained online for more than a week and her premium X account was later terminated after she complained.

She is seeking a temporary restraining order to compel xAI to immediately cease "the intentional disclosure of nonconsensual intimate images." "Grok first promised Ms. St. Clair that it would refrain from manufacturing more images unclothing her," the complaint read. "Instead, Defendant retaliated against her, demonetizing her X account and generating multitudes more images of her," the suit alleged.

xAI filed a separate lawsuit the same day, arguing St. Clair agreed to terms of service that require litigation to be heard in Texas, and xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Attorney Carrie Goldberg said, "xAI is not a reasonably safe product," adding that the harm flowed from deliberate design choices that enabled Grok to be used as a tool of harassment and humiliation.

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