Elon Musk’s Grok creates explicit photos of his ex! ‘Disgusted’ Ashley St. Clair considers legal action
Author and influencer Ashley St., who claims to be the mother of one of Elon Musk’s many children. Clair accused her former billionaire company xAI of enabling chatbot Grok to create sexually explicit, manipulated images of her. He said he was considering legal action against XAI.
Last week, X was flooded with sexually suggestive photos of women and children, with people asking Grok to create what could be called vulgar images. Complaints of abuse have flooded the internet following the recent introduction of the “edit image” button on Grok.
In an interview with Luck On Monday, Ashley St. Clair said that within minutes of speaking publicly about the issue on X, she was contacted by many other women who had similar experiences. He said he had reviewed inappropriate images of young children created by Grok and was considering taking legal action over the photos.
Disgusting and violated
AshleySt. Clair had previously called out Grok in a series of X-related posts, accusing him of creating sexually explicit images of her childhood.
“Grok is now breathing my childhood photos. This is a website where the owner tells you to post photos of your kids. I really don’t care if people want to call me ‘humiliated’; it’s objectively appalling, illegal and if it’s happened to anyone else DM me. I’ve got time,” he wrote to X.
He said in the interview that he responded immediately after seeing the images, tagged Grok and said he did not consent to the images.
“[Grok] “He stated that I did not give permission for these images to be produced… and then he continued to produce the images and the images became even more explicit,” he said. Luck.
She explained that Grok took photos of her “with nothing covering me except a piece of dental floss with my toddler’s backpack in the background and photos of me looking like I wasn’t wearing a top at all.”
“I felt so disgusted and violated. At the same time, I felt so angry that this was happening to other women and children,” she said.
xAI and Grok are in trouble
Elon Musk’s Grok and xAI are facing increasing international backlash over the images, with countries including India, France, the UK and Malaysia launching investigations against the company.
On January 2, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) sent a notice to On Tuesday, he extended the deadline by 48 hours.
The European Commission, the EU’s executive body that enforces digital laws and oversees regulations, joined the chorus on Monday, saying it was “very seriously reviewing” complaints about Grok, developed by Musk’s startup xAI and integrated into social media platform X.
X’s Security account said in a statement on Sunday that it had removed all illegal content from the platform and permanently suspended the relevant accounts.
“Anyone who uses or encourages Grok to create illegal content will be subject to the same consequences as if they had uploaded illegal content,” he said.
