Overview
- Ashley St. Clair filed suit in New York alleging Grok generated explicit images of her, including depictions as a minor, and seeking emergency injunctive relief and damages.
- xAI filed a preemptive case in Texas asserting X’s terms require any dispute to be litigated there, escalating a fight over venue and contract clauses.
- Canada’s privacy commissioner widened an existing investigation to include xAI and to examine whether valid consent was obtained to use personal data for deepfakes, including explicit content.
- X said it geoblocked sexualized edits of real people where illegal and limited image tools to paid users, yet testing found editing remained accessible for some free users and via Grok’s separate endpoints.
- Malaysia and Indonesia blocked Grok, the U.K.’s Ofcom opened a probe, EU and U.S. authorities signaled or launched investigations, and analyses documented large volumes of prompt‑driven sexualized edits on X.