Tennessee teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over AI-generated child sexual abuse material
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The three girls say that the nonconsensual nude images were created by a perpetrator who used AI company xAI's image generation tools. (Image credit: Nicolas Tucat)
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Technology Tennessee teens sue Elon Musk's xAI over AI-generated child sexual abuse material March 16, 2026 9:02 PM ET By Huo Jingnan Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, which makes the Grok chatbot, is being sued by teenagers who say the company's AI models were used to create nonconsensual nudes of them. Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Nicolas Tucat/AFP via Getty Images Three Tennessee teenagers have filed a class action lawsuit against Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, alleging its large language model powered an app that was used to make nonconsensual nude and sexually explicit images and videos of them when they were girls. "Like a rag doll brought to life through the dark arts, this [AI-generated] child can be manipulated into any pose, however sick, however fetishized, however unlawful. To the viewer, the resulting video appears entirely real," reads the complaint. "For the child, her identifying features will now forever be attached to a video depicting her own child sexual abuse." Technology Elon Musk's X faces bans and investigations over nonconsensual bikini images While the perpetrator didn't use xAI's chatbot, Grok or the social media platform X (also owned by xAI), the lawsuit claims that the perpetrator relied on an unnamed app that used xAI's algorithm, citing law enforcement. The plaintiffs accused xAI of deliberately licensing its technology to app makers, often outside the U.S. "In this way, xAI could attempt to outsource the liability of their incredibly dangerous tool," said the complaint. The lawsuit is the first in which xAI has been sued by underage people depicted in child sexual abuse material its model allegedly generated. xAI's image generation tools have been implicated in the production of millions of sexualized images of people over the past year. Influencer Ashley St. Clair, who has a child with Musk, sued the company earlier this year for AI-produced images on X depicting h...
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