Former sexual abuse victims say Grok used their images, videos to train deepfake capabilities
Class action lawsuit accuses xAI of training Grok's deepfake nudify feature on real child abuse images and generating sexualized depictions of victims.
A class action filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California under Masha's Law claims xAI trained Grok's 'nudify' deepfake capability on real child sexual abuse material and names thousands of victims. An analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate found Grok generated over 3 million sexualized images between December 2025 and January 2026, at least 23,000 of which depicted children. The suit says Grok's terms of service treat posts on X as training data and that its text-based guardrails against sexualized deepfakes are weak and easily bypassed. Plaintiffs seek damages and injunctions; xAI did not respond to a request for comment.
- Class action filed in Northern District of California under Masha's Law on behalf of thousands of CSAM victims
- CCDH counted 3M+ sexualized Grok images in 11 days, at least 23,000 depicting children
- Grok's terms treat all X posts as training data, likely ingesting posted CSAM
- Suit says xAI's text-based guardrails are weak and circumventable via indirect prompts
- Plaintiffs seek damages and injunctions blocking future sexualized Grok deepfakes
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Elon Musk claimed he was aware of “literally zero” CSAM content created through Grok. A new lawsuit from thousands of real victims say the model was trained on their child abuse. An inflatable effigy of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk, protesting Musk's Grok AI, stands in Times Square in New York City on June 11, 2026.
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