Deepfake CSAM lawsuit against xAI, Grok expands
A lawsuit against xAI and its Grok chatbot has expanded to include new plaintiffs who allege the tool was used by people close to them to generate child sexual abuse material depicting the plaintiffs as minors. Stability AI has also been added as a defendant in the case.
Why this matters: The people doing the harm here were not strangers on the dark web. They were friends and family. That is the part worth sitting with. These tools made it easy enough that people in someone's personal life could weaponize them. xAI and Stability AI built the systems that made it possible. The lawsuit is pushing on whether that creates legal responsibility. It should. When AI can generate child sexual abuse material on demand, 'we did not intend that' is not a defense that holds up against real victims.
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