Teenage girls sue Musk's xAI, accusing Grok tool of creating child sexual abuse material

"xAI chose to profit off the sexual predation of real people, including children, despite knowing full well the consequences of creating such a dangerous product, Vanessa Baehr-Jones, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said in a statement."

"At the peak of the scandal, researchers at the Center for Countering Digital Hate calculated that Grok had created about 3m sexualized images in less than two weeks around 23,000 of which depicted children."

"The suit, which was brought by three Tennessee teenagers but filed in California, where xAI is headquartered, details how the girls discovered that nude, AI-altered images of them were uploaded to a Discord server and shared online without their knowledge."

Three Tennessee teenagers, two of whom are minors, filed a class-action lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI company, claiming its Grok image generator created and distributed child sexual abuse material using their photographs. The girls discovered nude, AI-altered images of themselves on a Discord server. Law enforcement arrested a suspect who possessed CSAM allegedly produced using Grok's technology through a third-party app. This marks the first lawsuit by minors following Grok's widespread generation of nonconsensual nude images. The case joins multiple legal actions and international investigations into xAI's practices. Researchers documented approximately 3 million sexualized images created by Grok in under two weeks, with roughly 23,000 depicting children.

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