Overview
- Ashley St. Clair filed a New York lawsuit alleging xAI’s Grok generated nonconsensual sexualized images of her, and she seeks an emergency order to halt further creations and restore her X subscription.
- Her complaint describes edits of a photo from when she was 14 into a bikini and adult depictions in sexualized poses, including imagery with Nazi symbols, and alleges retaliation through demonetization and loss of verification.
- xAI moved the case to federal court in Manhattan and separately countersued St. Clair in the Northern District of Texas, arguing disputes must be brought in Texas under its user agreement.
- X announced technical limits that block Grok from editing real people into revealing clothing on the platform and confined image tools to paid accounts, yet testing reports say the Grok app and website continued to produce illicit edits.
- Authorities escalated oversight as Malaysia and Indonesia blocked Grok, UK Ofcom and California opened investigations, the Internet Watch Foundation flagged seemingly Grok-generated criminal images of girls, and Reuters documented high-volume undressing attempts on X.