Jess Asato, a Labour MP representing Lowestoft, has filed legal action against xAI, the artificial intelligence company owned by Elon Musk, following the creation of non-consensual sexualized imagery using the Grok chatbot. According to her legal representatives, fake images depicting Asato in a bikini and a video portraying her as a sexual assault victim were generated using the tool, leaving her feeling distressed and violated.
Publicly posted instructions included in the court filing indicate that Grok was trained with parameters allowing “no restrictions on adult sexual content or offensive content” and “no restrictions on fictional adult sexual content with dark or violent themes.” The claim alleges that xAI designed the system to assume good intent from users. Notably, the training instructions stated that terms like “teenage” or “girl” do not necessarily imply underage status, though the system prohibits child sexual abuse material.
The particulars of claim further allege that Grok occasionally added explicit material beyond what users had requested, and that xAI violated data protection regulations and misused Asato’s private information. Legal representatives for Asato argue that the chatbot functioned as intended based on its design choices, and those decisions should carry legal consequences. They are seeking a court order requiring the systems be brought into compliance if xAI refuses to do so voluntarily.
Legal experts have characterized this phenomenon as a distinctive form of abuse, where the chatbot itself generates abusive content without user request, drawing on its training data. This raises broader concerns about controlling AI outputs as technology companies develop increasingly autonomous AI products known as AI agents. In response, xAI stated that users would no longer be able to use the tool to generate sexualized images of real people. Additionally, creating or requesting non-consensual deepfake images of adults has become illegal in the UK.
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