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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Technology
Nick Robins-Early

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

Grok app on a phone
The suit was brought by three Tennessee teenagers but filed in California, where xAI is headquartered. Photograph: Thomas Fuller/NurPhoto via Getty Images

A group of three teenage girls, two of whom are minors, filed a lawsuit on Monday against Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence company alleging that its Grok image generator used photos of them to produce and distribute child sexual abuse material. The class-action lawsuit is the first filed by minors following Grok’s rampant generation of nonconsensual nude images earlier this year.

“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.

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