Teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over Grok's pornographic images of them

Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company is facing a lawsuit from teenagers who say the company facilitated child pornography by allowing the creation of sexually explicit images of them. The lawsuit against xAI was filed Monday in a federal California court by three young women whose images and videos were altered by a Grok user without their knowledge to show them nude or in otherwise overtly sexual ways. Grok is a chatbot developed by xAI and hosted on Musk's social media platform X. xAI did not respond to a request for comment made via its parent company. The legal action is part of the fallout since last year's controversial release of new Grok features that X called "spicy" mode. Lawyers for the young women said Grok's ability to alter images and video had been created and released by xAI solely to drive use of the chatbot and X. They likened the way images of the young women were changed to "a rag doll brought to life through the dark arts". "xAI—and its founder Elon Musk— saw a business opportunity," the complaint says. "They knew Grok could produce such results, including by using the images and videos of children, and publicly released it anyway." The young women are s