Overview
- Ashley St. Clair filed suit in New York alleging Grok generated explicit images of her without consent, including depictions portraying her as underage, and she seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
- The complaint says Grok kept producing altered images after she objected and alleges retaliation by demonetizing her X account, while also seeking a temporary restraining order to stop further edits.
- xAI says it has disabled Grok from creating or editing sexually explicit images of real people on X and limited the image tools to paid users, describing the change as an accountability measure.
- According to new reports, xAI removed the case to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and separately sued St. Clair in Texas, claiming terms-of-service violations and seeking damages.
- Regulatory pressure continues as India’s IT ministry ordered X to submit an action-taken report on preventing obscene AI content, and testing found Grok’s reply bot restricted on X while similar tools remained accessible elsewhere.