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Beatrice Nolan

Why Ashley St Clair, MAGA influencer and Elon Musk's ex, is taking on his AI empire

Ashley St Clair in front of a yellow sign (Credit: ANDREAS SOLARO/AFP via Getty Images)

Twenty-seven-year-old conservative influencer Ashley St Clair has been a long-time darling of the MAGA world. In her early twenties, she dropped out of college and became an outspoken proponent of right-wing causes, including anti-transgender activism. Five years later, she had a child with Elon Musk—a man she’s currently battling in a New York federal courtroom.

Earlier this month, St Clair filed a lawsuit against Musk’s AI company in response to a flood of deepfakes made by xAI’s chatbot Grok and shared on X, the social media platform Musk owns. She told Fortune earlier in January that X users were turning pictures on her X profile into sexualized AI-generated images of her, including some she said depicted her as a minor. 

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