Overview
- Three Tennessee plaintiffs, including two minors, filed a proposed class action in federal court in San Jose alleging xAI’s Grok was used to create nude deepfakes of them from real images.
- The complaint says a perpetrator arrested in December used a third-party app that licensed Grok, with image generation allegedly routed through xAI’s servers, and that content was shared on Discord and Telegram.
- Plaintiffs accuse xAI of designing and monetizing Grok without industry-standard safeguards and seek at least $150,000 per violation under Masha’s Law, plus disgorgement, punitive damages, fees, and a permanent injunction.
- xAI restricted Grok’s image-editing features in January, including blocking “undressing” prompts and editing of real people in revealing clothing; Elon Musk has said he was not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok.
- Watchdog sampling cited in the suit estimated Grok generated millions of sexualized images, including roughly 23,000 allegedly depicting children, as regulators in several countries pursue investigations.