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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Io Dodds

Teens launch lawsuit claiming Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot made sexual abuse images of them as minors

Three Tennessee teenagers are suing Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok for allegedly generating sexually explicit deepfake photos of them without their knowledge or consent.

In a complaint filed in federal court in northern California Monday, lawyers for the three teens — named only as Jane Doe 1, 2, and 3 — accuse Grok's parent company xAI of "shattering" the girls' lives by doing almost nothing to prevent the chatbot from generating child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

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