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Ashley St Clair, mother of Musk\u2019s son, Romulus, sues over \u2018pain and mental distress\u2019 caused by fake AI images generated by Grok chatbot.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The mother of one of Elon Musk\u2019s children is suing his artificial intelligence company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually-exploitative deepfake images of her that have caused her humiliation and emotional distress.<\/p>\n The lawsuit was filed just before \u200dCalifornia Attorney \u200dGeneral Rob Bonta sent a cease-and-desist letter to Musk\u2019s xAI company demanding that it stop the creation and distribution of Grok-generated nonconsensual sexualised imagery.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n \u201cThe avalanche of reports detailing this material \u2013 at times depicting \u200bwomen and children engaged in sexual activity \u2013 is shocking \u200dand, as my office has determined, potentially illegal,\u201d Bonta said on Friday.<\/p>\n Ashley St Clair, a writer and political commentator, alleges in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in New York City against xAI that she was the victim of sexualised deepfake images generated by Grok.<\/p>\n St Clair, who is the mother of Musk\u2019s 16-month-old son, Romulus, said she reported the images to Musk\u2019s X social media platform, which hosts Grok, after they began appearing last year and asked that they be removed.<\/p>\n The platform replied that the images did not violate its policies, she said. Then it promised not to allow images of her to be used or altered without her consent. Later, the social platform retaliated against her by removing her premium X subscription and verification checkmark, and continued to allow degrading fake images of her, she said.<\/p>\n \u201cI have suffered and continue to suffer serious pain and mental distress as a result of xAI\u2019s role in creating and distributing these digitally altered images of me,\u201d St Clair said in a document attached to the lawsuit.<\/p>\n \u201cI am humiliated and feel like this nightmare will never stop so long as Grok continues to generate these images of me,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n On Thursday, lawyers for xAI countersued St Clair in federal court in the Northern District of Texas, alleging she violated the terms of her xAI user agreement that requires lawsuits against the company be filed in federal court in Texas. It is seeking an undisclosed monetary judgement against her.<\/p>\n Carrie Goldberg, a lawyer for St Clair, called the countersuit a \u201cjolting\u201d move that she had never seen by a defendant before.<\/p>\n \u201cMs St Clair will be vigorously defending her forum in New York,\u201d Goldberg said in a statement.<\/p>\n \u201cBut frankly, any jurisdiction will recognise the gravamen of Ms St Clair\u2019s claims \u2013 that by manufacturing nonconsensual sexually explicit images of girls and women, xAI is a public nuisance and a not reasonably safe product.\u201d<\/p>\n In an interview with US media earlier this week, St Clair said her battle with Grok was \u201cnot just about me\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s about building systems, AI systems which can produce, at scale, and abuse women and children without repercussions. And there\u2019s really no consequences for what\u2019s happening right now,\u201d she told CNN.<\/p>\n \u201cThey are saying \u2018we are going to make it illegal, where it\u2019s illegal\u2019. That is absent [of] all morality and, guess what, if you have to add safety after harm, that is not safety at all. That is simply damage control,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Musk\u2019s Grok is already under scrutiny and facing an international backlash for the creation of explicit deepfake images in \u200cthe United Kingdom, the European Union, and other jurisdictions, \u2060including India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Japan.<\/p>\n Japanese authorities said on Friday they too were probing X over Grok, saying all options were under consideration to \u200cprevent the generation of inappropriate images.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Ashley St Clair, mother of Musk\u2019s son, Romulus, sues over \u2018pain and mental distress\u2019 caused by fake AI images generated by Grok chatbot. 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