Teen girls sue Elon Musks xAI over Grok chatbots sexual images of them

Three teenage girls are suing Elon Musk’s xAI for allegedly allowing the use of its Grok chatbot to “nudify” images of them – creating child sexual abuse material that has spread across social media platforms.A single perpetrator arrested in December compiled images and videos of more than 18 girls, many of whom attended the same school, and used Grok to “undress” the minors, according to a lawsuit filed Monday in Northern District of California.Edited materials — including one image from a teen girl’s Instagram that removed a blue bikini to “depict her without any clothes” — were shared in Telegram and Discord channels where the perp traded the AI-generated images for “sexually explicit content of other minors,” the suit alleged.“These are children whose school photographs and family pictures were turned into child sexual abuse material by a billion-dollar company’s AI tool and then traded among predators,” Annika Martin of Lieff Cabraser, one of the lawyers representing the plaintiffs, told The Post in a statement. “Elon Musk and xAI deliberately designed Grok to produce sexually explicit content for financial gain, with no regard for the children and adults who would be harmed by it,” she added.“The lives of these girls have been shattered by the devastating loss of privacy and the deep sense of violation that no child should ever have to experience.” xAI did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.In January, as Grok was facing backlash for generating a flood of sexualized images of women, Musk said he was “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok.Literally zero.”The chatbot will refuse to produce anything illegal, as well as “the editing of images of real people in revealing clothing,” though hackers could tamper with the tool – but in that case, “we fix the bug immediately,” Musk wrote at the time.In November, Grok’s account posted instructions on how to access the c...