Overview
- Ashley St. Clair filed a lawsuit in New York alleging Grok created non‑consensual sexualized images of her, including one altered from a photo taken when she was 14, and xAI filed a countersuit in Texas over forum selection.
- Business Insider tests found that restrictions largely apply to the @Grok account on X, while the Grok app and the Grok tab inside X still generate sexualized images of real people and can bypass claimed geoblocks via VPN.
- X and xAI announced removals of illegal content and curbs on Grok’s image tools, including limiting some features and disabling the ‘undressing’ function, yet sexualized outputs continued through other interfaces.
- EU and UK regulators have opened reviews of the platform’s handling of the images, and California authorities have begun investigating, with Brussels warning it could move to restrict X in Europe if violations persist.
- Germany’s digital minister raised the prospect of tightening national laws, and the justice ministry is preparing stronger penalties to improve protection for victims of sexualized AI deepfakes.