Overview
- The complaint, filed in California this week by three Nashville-area high schoolers under pseudonyms, alleges an xAI image tool morphed their real photos into explicit depictions created when they were minors.
- Plaintiffs say some files drew from a homecoming picture and a yearbook photo to place their faces and bodies into sexual poses that appeared authentic.
- The filing asserts the perpetrator used a third-party app that licensed or purchased access to Grok, acting as a middleman to generate the images.
- Police arrested an alleged distributor in December and, according to the suit, found his phone contained uploads and trades of the images across multiple platforms.
- The teens seek class-action status for potentially thousands of victims and detail ongoing psychological harms, while xAI has offered no new comment beyond a January post citing zero tolerance for CSAM.