Three Tennessee teenagers launched a lawsuit today against Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok for allegedly generating sexually explicit deepfake images of them without their consent.
Earlier this 12 months, X Corp. met with widespread criticism after reports emerged saying there had been a proliferation of deepfake sexualized images being promulgated on various platforms, images generated by people using the Grok chatbot. This got here after X announced a brand new feature called “spicy” mode.
Today’s lawsuit marks the primary time minors have sued an organization over an organization allowing the generation of nonconsensual sexual material to be shared on one in all its platforms. The lawsuit was filed in a federal California court by three young women, each of them claiming their appearance was altered by Grok in either image or video form without their knowledge to indicate them in a sexualized manner.
“xAI, and its founder Elon Musk, saw a business opportunity,” the grievance reads. “They knew Grok could produce such results, including by utilizing the photographs and videos of youngsters, and publicly released it anyway.” Elsewhere, it compares the photographs to “a rag doll dropped at life through the dark arts.”
Two of the kids are under the age of 18, although all three decided to withhold their names. Each of them is looking for damages for a “devastating lack of privacy, dignity, and private safety” while asking that Grok be banned from creating such images in the longer term.
In keeping with the grievance, a lady named only as Jane Doe 1 was tipped off on Instagram that nude photos and videos of her and other minors had been appearing on the social media platform Discord. She alleges that somebody had taken real photos of her at her school’s homecoming dance or from the college yearbook and used Grok to make her appear naked.
Police arrested the person responsible in December last 12 months, but on searching the person’s devices, they found images or videos of women from the identical school, a few of whom are Jane Doe 2 and Jane Doe 3.
xAI Chief Executive Elon Musk, who had previously promoted Grok’s “spicy” feature, has since said he wasn’t aware of Grok generating images of naked underage people. In January, he announced that Grok would now not generate images of women in bikinis.
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