Ashley St. Clair, the mom of Elon Musk’s son Romulus, sued his xAI firm, alleging its Grok generative device created express sexual photos of her with out her consent.
St. Clair, 27, filed the lawsuit in New York on Thursday, January 15, in keeping with CNN, NBC Information and Individuals.
Within the submitting, the right-wing political commentator alleged that “xAI’s product Grok, a generative synthetic intelligence (‘AI’) chatbot, makes use of AI to undress, humiliate and sexually exploit victims.”
St. Clair claimed that X customers have been in a position to make use of Grok to generate “numerous sexually abusive, intimate and degrading deepfake content material” of her regardless of informing Grok that she “didn’t consent to being undressed.”
The lawsuit alleged, “Amongst different issues, X customers dug up images of St. Clair absolutely clothed at 14 years previous and requested Grok undress her and put her in a bikini. Grok obliged.”
“Grok additionally produced deepfake, sexualized content material of St. Clair as an grownup, together with deepfake content material of her coated in semen [and] her rubbing her breasts,” the lawsuit continued, including that photos have been additionally altered so as to add tattoos to St. Clair’s likeness akin to “Elon’s w****” and make her look “morbidly overweight.”
St. Clair’s authorized staff argued that “xAI is instantly accountable for the harassment and express photos created by its personal chatbot, Grok,” and demanded a trial by jury.
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“xAI just isn’t a fairly secure product and is a public nuisance,” St. Clair’s legal professional, Carrie Goldberg, mentioned in an announcement to Individuals on Thursday. “No person has born the brunt greater than Ashley St. Clair. Ashley filed go well with as a result of Grok was harassing her by creating and distributing nonconsensual, abusive and degrading photos of her and publishing them on X.”
Goldberg added, “This hurt flowed instantly from deliberate design decisions that enabled Grok for use as a device of harassment and humiliation. Firms shouldn’t be in a position to escape accountability when the merchandise they construct predictably trigger this type of hurt. We intend to carry Grok accountable and to assist set up clear authorized boundaries for the whole public’s profit to forestall AI from being weaponized for abuse.”
On Wednesday, January 14, X mentioned it had “applied technological measures to forestall the [@]Grok account on X globally from permitting the enhancing of photos of actual individuals in revealing clothes akin to bikinis,” after the platform was inundated with consumer requests to change images of actual individuals.
“We stay dedicated to creating X a secure platform for everybody and proceed to have zero tolerance for any types of youngster sexual exploitation, non-consensual nudity, and undesirable sexual content material,” X added.
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In a January 9 interview with Inside Version, St. Clair mentioned she felt “disgusted and violated” by the pictures that have been allegedly generated by Grok.
“I acquired a textual content from a buddy, proper after I put my son to sleep, so I used to be like, ‘Oh my God, what may this be now?’ And I discovered that Grok was undressing me and it had taken a totally clothed picture of me. Somebody requested it to place me in a bikini and it did,” she mentioned. “These are actual photos of me that they then took and had them undress me. So, they discovered a photograph of me once I was 14 years previous and had Grok undress 14-year-old me and put me in a bikini.”
St. Clair and Musk, 54, are presently locked in a dispute over custody of their 16-month-old son after the political strategist publicly expressed assist for transgender rights.
“I will likely be submitting for full custody at the moment, given her statements implying she would possibly transition a one-year-old boy,” Musk, who has at the very least 13 different kids, wrote in an X submit on Monday, January 12.
