{"id":47607,"date":"2026-01-16T14:10:38","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:10:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/?p=47607"},"modified":"2026-01-16T14:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T14:10:39","slug":"cp37erw0zwwoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/2026\/01\/16\/cp37erw0zwwoat_mediumrssat_campaignrss\/","title":{"rendered":"Ashley St Clair, mother of Elon Musk&#8217;s child, sues xAI over Grok deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk&#8217;s children, has sued his company xAI over sexualised deepfakes of her created on social media platform X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The lawsuit filed in New York on Thursday alleges the Grok AI tool created sexually explicit pictures of St Clair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The parent company of X and Grok, xAI, has counter-sued St Clair for violating its terms of service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">X did not respond directly to BBC News&#8217;s enquiries about the lawsuits.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;We intend to hold Grok accountable and to help establish clear legal boundaries for the entire public&#8217;s benefit to prevent AI from being weaponised for abuse,&#8221; St Clair&#8217;s lawyer Carrie Goldberg told BBC News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;By manufacturing nonconsensual sexually explicit images of girls and women, xAI is a public nuisance and a not reasonably safe product,&#8221; Goldberg added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">St Clair&#8217;s court filing alleges: &#8220;X users dug up photos of St Clair fully clothed at 14 years old and requested Grok undress her and put her in a bikini. Grok obliged&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It says the imagery created of St Clair was &#8220;de facto non-consensual&#8221; but Grok&#8217;s developers also had &#8220;explicit knowledge&#8221; of her lack of consent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It also claims Grok generated an image which put St Clair, who is Jewish, &#8220;in a string bikini covered with swastikas&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In response to her complaints, the filing says, the company &#8220;retaliated against her, demonetizing her X account and generating multitudes more images of her&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Some X premium users, who pay a monthly fee, can receive a share of advertising revenue gained from posts which receive a lot of engagement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a counter-suit, xAI said that St Clair had violated their terms of service by filing her lawsuit in New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The company&#8217;s terms say disputes with xAI must be brought in Texas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Goldberg told BBC News the company&#8217;s counter-suit was &#8220;jolting&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;I have never heard of any defendant suing somebody for notifying them of their intention to use the legal system,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">&#8220;And their mistreatment of her online is mimicked in their legal strategy.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She added St Clair would be &#8220;vigorously defending&#8221; her case in New York and that &#8220;any jurisdiction will recognise&#8221; the grievance. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It was revealed by St Clair in an X post last year that she had given birth to the tech billionaire&#8217;s child &#8211; one of at least 13 he is believed to have fathered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">St Clair and Musk are thought to be engaged in a custody battle over their child.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">X came under intense scrutiny from users, politicians and regulators worldwide  over Grok being used to make non-consensual sexualised imagery of people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Users had been able to tag the Grok account in posts or replies to posts on the platform and ask it to edit images to undress people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Grok complied with many such requests to produce photo-realistic images of real women in bikinis and revealing clothing &#8211; with reports it also produced sexualised images of children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Wednesday, before her court filing, St Clair told BBC Newsnight her image had been &#8220;stripped&#8221; to appear &#8220;basically nude, bent over&#8221; despite her telling Grok she did not consent to the sexualised images.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">She, and other women whose images were edited using Grok, had said the site was not doing enough to tackle illegal content, including child sexual abuse imagery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Following backlash, X changed its rules so only paid users could use the function &#8211; sparking criticism from women&#8217;s groups and the UK government.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The company said on Wednesday that all X users would no longer be able to edit photos of real people to show them in revealing clothing in jurisdictions where it is illegal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">It later updated its post to say it would implement &#8220;similar geoblocking measures for the Grok app&#8221;, which is separate to X.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">On Friday, The Guardian reported that it was still possible to use the standalone Grok app to generate sexualised deepfakes of real people and post them on X &#8220;without any sign of it being moderated&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The UK government is bringing into force a law which will make it illegal to create non-consensual intimate images, and regulator Ofcom is still probing whether X broke existing UK laws.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\" async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Africa tv video display -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1669381584671856\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3579572842\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script data-jetpack-boost=\"ignore\">\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n#Ashley #Clair #mother #Elon #Musks #child #sues #xAI #Grok #deepfakes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk&#8217;s children, has sued his company xAI over sexualised deepfakes of&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mzansi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47607","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47607"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47607\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47609,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47607\/revisions\/47609"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eduzim.co.zw\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}