Ashley St. Clair, the mom of Elon Musk’s son Romulus, sued his xAI firm, alleging its Grok generative software created specific sexual pictures 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 Folks.
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 ready 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.”
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The lawsuit alleged, “Amongst different issues, X customers dug up images of St. Clair absolutely clothed at 14 years outdated and requested Grok undress her and put her in a bikini.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 pictures have been additionally altered so as to add tattoos to St. Clair’s likeness resembling “Elon’s w****” and make her look “morbidly overweight.”
St. Clair’s authorized group argued that “xAI is straight chargeable for the harassment and specific pictures created by its personal chatbot, Grok,” and demanded a trial by jury.
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“xAI is just not a fairly protected product and is a public nuisance,” St. Clair’s legal professional, Carrie Goldberg, mentioned in an announcement to Folks 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 pictures of her and publishing them on X.”
Goldberg added, “This hurt flowed straight from deliberate design decisions that enabled Grok for use as a software of harassment and humiliation. Firms shouldn’t be in a position to escape accountability when the merchandise they construct predictably trigger this sort of hurt. We intend to carry Grok accountable and to assist set up clear authorized boundaries for the whole public’s profit to stop AI from being weaponized for abuse.”
On Wednesday, January 14, X mentioned it had “carried out technological measures to stop the [@]Grok account on X globally from permitting the modifying of pictures of actual individuals in revealing clothes resembling bikinis,” after the platform was inundated with person requests to change images of actual individuals.
“We stay dedicated to creating X a protected platform for everybody and proceed to have zero tolerance for any types of little one 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 photographs that have been allegedly generated by Grok.
“I bought a textual content from a good friend, 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 completely clothed picture of me. Somebody requested it to place me in a bikini and it did,” she mentioned. “These are actual pictures of me that they then took and had them undress me. So, they discovered a photograph of me once I was 14 years outdated and had Grok undress 14-year-old me and put me in a bikini.”
St. Clair and Musk, 54, are at the moment locked in a dispute over custody of their 16-month-old son after the political strategist publicly expressed help for transgender rights.
“I shall be submitting for full custody right now, given her statements implying she would possibly transition a one-year-old boy,” Musk, who has at the very least 13 different youngsters, wrote in an X publish on Monday, January 12.
