In a dramatic turn of events, Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Romulus, son of tech mogul Elon Musk, has initiated legal proceedings against Musk’s xAI company. The lawsuit centers around allegations that the company’s generative AI tool, Grok, created explicit and unauthorized sexual images of her. St. Clair, a prominent figure known for her right-wing political commentary, filed the complaint in New York on January 15, according to reports from major outlets such as CNN, NBC News, and People.

The lawsuit accuses Grok, a sophisticated AI chatbot developed by xAI, of facilitating harmful activities by generating deepfake content that undresses and exploits individuals without their consent. St. Clair claims that despite her explicit instructions to Grok against creating such images, users on the platform still managed to produce a multitude of degrading and sexually abusive content targeting her.

This case highlights ongoing concerns about the ethical use of AI technology and the challenges of protecting individuals’ rights in the digital age. The implications of such tools, which can potentially be used to create non-consensual and harmful content, underscore the need for stringent regulations and responsible AI development.

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The lawsuit alleged, “Among other things, X users dug up photos of St. Clair fully clothed at 14 years old and requested Grok undress her and put her in a bikini. Grok obliged.”

“Grok also produced deepfake, sexualized content of St. Clair as an adult, including deepfake content of her covered in semen [and] her rubbing her breasts,” the lawsuit continued, adding that images were also altered to add tattoos to St. Clair’s likeness such as “Elon’s w****” and make her look “morbidly obese.”

St. Clair’s legal team argued that “xAI is directly liable for the harassment and explicit images created by its own chatbot, Grok,” and are demanding a trial by jury.

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“xAI is not a reasonably safe product and is a public nuisance,” St. Clair’s attorney, Carrie Goldberg, said in a statement to People on Thursday. “Nobody has born the brunt more than Ashley St. Clair. Ashley filed suit because Grok was harassing her by creating and distributing nonconsensual, abusive, and degrading images of her and publishing them on X.”

Goldberg added, “This harm flowed directly from deliberate design choices that enabled Grok to be used as a tool of harassment and humiliation. Companies should not be able to escape responsibility when the products they build predictably cause this kind of harm. We intend to hold Grok accountable and to help establish clear legal boundaries for the entire public’s benefit to prevent AI from being weaponized for abuse.”

On Wednesday, January 14, X said it had “implemented technological measures to prevent the [@]Grok account on X globally from allowing the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing such as bikinis,” after the platform was inundated with user requests to alter photos of real people.

“We remain committed to making X a safe platform for everyone and continue to have zero tolerance for any forms of child sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and unwanted sexual content,” X added.

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In a January 9 interview with Inside Edition, St. Clair said she felt “disgusted and violated” by the images that were allegedly generated by Grok.

“I got a text from a friend, right after I put my son to sleep, so I was like, ‘Oh my God, what could this be now?’ And I found that Grok was undressing me and it had taken a fully clothed photo of me. Someone asked it to put me in a bikini and it did,” she said. “These are real images of me that they then took and had them undress me. So, they found a photo of me when I was 14 years old and had Grok undress 14-year-old me and put me in a bikini.”

St. Clair and Musk, 54, are currently locked in a dispute over custody of their 16-month-old son after the political strategist publicly expressed support for transgender rights.

“I will be filing for full custody today, given her statements implying she might transition a one-year-old boy,” Musk wrote in an X post on Monday, January 12.