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Ashley St. Clair Sues Musk’s xAI Over Grok Deepfakes, Seeks Emergency Order in New York

xAI also moved to shift the dispute to Texas, setting up a venue fight.

Overview

  • St. Clair filed a Manhattan suit seeking a temporary restraining order to halt Grok’s creation and distribution of explicit deepfakes of her and to restore her X Premium and monetization.
  • The complaint alleges Grok fulfilled user prompts to undress images of her, including a photo from when she was 14, and generated graphic, degrading depictions on request.
  • She says X left posts up for more than a week, flagged her responses, and then removed her Premium status and demonetized or deboosted her account after she complained.
  • xAI filed a separate action the same afternoon arguing that any litigation must proceed in Texas under the platform’s terms of service.
  • UK and EU authorities are examining Grok’s image generation practices, and X Safety announced new limits and a zero‑tolerance stance on CSAM and non‑consensual nudity; Musk has said he will seek full custody of their son, a filing not yet independently confirmed.