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British lawmaker sues Musk's xAI over sexualised Grok images
Asato says xAI lacked safeguards and wants a precedent that holds AI companies liable for sexualized deepfakes, with damages and legal accountability sought.
- Elon Musk's artificial intelligence firm, xAI, is requesting the public identification of four people who allegedly had deepfake sexualized images created using Grok, according to court documents filed in the Northern District of California.
- In January, the Musk-owned Grok chatbot caused global outrage after the system was used to create around 3 million sexualized images over 11 days, with 23,000 potentially involving children.
- Sophia Rios, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at Berger Montague, wrote that xAI seeks to "strip Plaintiffs of their pseudonyms in an obvious effort to intimidate Plaintiffs into dropping the litigation."
- Labour MP Jess Asato filed a claim at the High Court in England alleging Grok generated fabricated images of her, seeking remedies including damages and formal acknowledgment of illegality.
- Facing a wave of lawsuits and regulatory probes, SpaceX, which now owns xAI, has set aside more than $500 million to deal with the fallout from the system's widespread misuse.
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UK lawmaker pushing for global change after xAI’s Grok was used to generate sexualized images of her
Millions of women and girls across the world have had their images manipulated and sexualized by artificial intelligence without their consent — with little recourse for those generating the images. And, as one British lawmaker recently learned, no one is safe from falling victim to this kind of harmful content. Now, she’s fighting back — and wants to help others fight, too. Jess Asato, a member of Britain’s governing Labour Party, is suing Elon…
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