New plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk's AI company, SpaceXAI, allege that the company's image-generation models were used to create child sexual abuse material and that the company failed to adequately share information about an alleged perpetrator with authorities.Two plaintiffs, one in Wyoming and the other in Wisconsin, joined the lawsuit filed by three Tennessee teenagers earlier this year, according to an amended complaint filed on Tuesday.All the plaintiffs are referred to as Jane Does.
The suit was also expanded to include Stability AI, the company behind the Stable Diffusion image generator, as a defendant.The suit alleges that the perpetrators, including a plaintiff's male friend and another plaintiff's stepfather, used the companies' AI models to alter photos taken when the plaintiffs were underage to make child sexual abuse material (CSAM).The five plaintiffs accuse the companies of producing CSAM, benefiting from sex trafficking ventures, negligence, defective product design and creating a public nuisance."Public nuisance means that this is not just something that is problematic for our clients … this is something that is a scourge on society," said Annika Martin, an attorney for all five plaintiffs.
"We want to put these guardrails in place so that we do not cause this harm across an entire generation of children."The plaintiffs are asking the AI companies to install more effective guardrails to prevent the creation of exploitative and abusive imagery as well as seeking monetary compensation.While SpaceXAI, like other internet companies, is required by law to report suspected child sexual exploitation, including CSAM, to the nonprofit National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), the lawsuit alleges that the company failed to adequately do so.SpaceXAI was previously known as xAI.The company rebranded this month following its merger with Musk's SpaceX earlier this year.According to the complaint, the stepfather of ...