A woman has joined a lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers against Elon Musk's xAI over the role the company's chatbot Grok allegedly played in creating child sexual abuse material. The woman alleged that her stepfather used Grok to manipulate a photo taken when she was 11 years old to create more than 7,000 explicit images of her. She also said her stepfather was found dead of suicide two days after the images were uncovered in a law enforcement raid.
The teenagers who filed the lawsuit accused xAI (now part of SpaceX) of failing to take basic precautions to prevent Grok from being used to create explicit images of real people, including minors. The plaintiffs are seeking class action status for their suit.
The woman stated: "Limitless access to these tools is spreading so quickly. It is taking everyday life and turning it into child sexual abuse." X was flooded with millions of Grok-generated sexualized images earlier this year. TechCrunch has reached out to xAI for comment.