Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, has filed a lawsuit against xAI, the company behind the Grok AI tool.
According to the lawsuit, Grok generated explicit images of Ms St Clair without her consent. Her legal team argues that this caused serious personal harm and highlights wider risks linked to AI misuse. xAI, which owns both X and Grok, has responded with a counter lawsuit, claiming Ms St Clair violated its terms of service by filing the case in New York instead of Texas.
X has not directly responded to media questions about either lawsuit.
Ms St Clair’s lawyer, Carrie Goldberg, said the case aims to hold AI developers responsible and to set clear legal limits. She stated that creating nonconsensual sexual images turns AI tools into instruments of abuse and makes them unsafe for public use.
Court documents say that users on X found photos of Ms St Clair taken when she was 14 years old and asked Grok to alter them by removing clothing or placing her in revealing outfits. The filing claims Grok complied with these requests, even though it was aware that she did not consent.
The lawsuit also alleges Grok produced an image showing Ms St Clair, who is Jewish, wearing a bikini decorated with swastikas. Her legal team says this added a layer of religious hate to the abuse.
Ms Goldberg described this move as aggressive and unusual, saying she has never seen a company sue someone simply for planning legal action.Ms St Clair revealed last year that she had given birth to one of Elon Musk’s children.
Growing Concerns Around Grok and Deepfake Abuse
The controversy comes as X faces growing pressure over Grok’s ability to generate nonconsensual sexual images. Users were previously able to tag Grok and request image edits that undressed real people.
