xAI has sued a South Carolina man already facing criminal charges over alleged child sexual abuse material, accusing him of spending more than two months using fake Grok accounts to create or attempt to create sexually explicit images of adults and children, before the company's own reporting helped trigger a criminal investigation.
The lawsuit, filed on 14 July in the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas, alleges that between December 2025 and February 2026, 67-year-old Terry Wayne Harwood repeatedly tried to circumvent Grok's safety safeguards by uploading ordinary photographs and prompting the chatbot to generate explicit images and videos without the subjects' consent.
