US EditionBaltimore sues Elon Musk's xAI over Grok sexual 'deepfakes'
Baltimore alleges Grok generated 3 million explicit deepfake images, including 23,000 involving minors, violating local consumer protection laws and exposing residents to harm.
- Baltimore, the largest city to sue xAI over 'deepfakes' attributed to Grok, said Grok has flooded X users with objectionable content depicting nonconsensual sexual activity and child sexual abuse.
- The city said X generated an estimated 3 million realistic-looking sexualized images, including over 23,000 of children, around the start of the year, and is seeking an injunction requiring xAI to change Grok's 'exploitative' design features.
- 'These deepfakes, especially those depicting minors, have traumatic, lifelong consequences for victims, who are left with no way to prevent the spread of disturbing, sexualized images created of them without their consent,' Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott stated.
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Baltimore Sues xAI Over Grok Sexual Deepfakes
The city of Baltimore sued Elon Musk’s xAI on Tuesday. The complaint, filed in Baltimore Circuit Court, accuses the company of violating the city’s consumer protection ordinance by marketing Grok as a safe, general-purpose artificial intelligence assistant while the chatbot generates and distributes nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes. Lawyers for the city of roughly 568,000 residents say the tool has become one of the largest distributors…
Baltimore sues xAI over Grok deepfakes
Grok has already taken extensive heat after the AI chatbot's image generation tool was used to create an estimated 3 million sexualized images over 11 days, including 23,000 of minors, according to the Center for Countering Digital Hate. Regulators around the world have limited access or launched investigations into the platform's potentially illegal and nonconsensual image generation. The US government hasn't made any moves against xAI or its p…
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