{"id":33905,"date":"2026-05-10T21:36:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:36:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/33905\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T21:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T21:36:46","slug":"baltimore-sues-elon-musk-ai-company-over-groks-fake-sexual-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/33905\/","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore sues Elon Musk AI company over Grok\u2019s fake sexual images"},"content":{"rendered":"

The city of Baltimore is suing Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company<\/a> over nonconsensual sexual images generated using the company\u2019s Grok tool, in one of the first such lawsuits brought by a local government.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit claims that users of Musk\u2019s social media company X, formerly known as Twitter, have been exposed to Grok-generated sexual content and risk having their own images manipulated without their permission. <\/p>\n

\u201cBaltimore residents have a reasonable expectation that they will not be exposed to this illegal content on X, and that X will not harass its own customers with Grok-generated deepfakes,\u201d the complaint states. The lawsuit was brought by the national law firm Dicello Levitt on behalf of the city. The firm is working on a contingency basis, so it will not be paid unless the city wins money in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

Grok is a generative artificial intelligence tool developed by xAI and promoted to users through X. The complaint says the companies introduced an image generation feature in August that included a \u201cspicy mode\u201d that allowed users to create sexually explicit images and videos. Users could \u201cundress\u201d people shown in photographs, including celebrities and children, according to the complaint.<\/p>\n

xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the new lawsuit.<\/p>\n

When fake images of people in bikinis became part of an online trend late last year, Musk shared a Grok-generated photo of himself in a bikini. \u201cPerfect,\u201d he wrote in a follow-up post. The use of the tool exploded<\/a> after his post.<\/p>\n

X limited the image creation tool to paid accounts in January, following outcry over the sexualized images Grok had created.<\/p>\n

An analysis<\/a> by the New York Times estimates that Grok created and shared at least 1.8 million sexualized images of women while the service was available. Another analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate<\/a> estimated that over 3 million images were shared, including more than 20,000 of children.<\/p>\n

In a statement, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott said that the images created by Grok have lasting consequences for victims.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re talking about tech companies enabling the sexual exploitation of children,\u201d Scott said. \u201cOur city will not stand by and allow this to continue.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Grok lawsuit is the latest action brought by Baltimore\u2019s ambitious law department since the City Council passed a consumer protection<\/a> law in 2023.<\/p>\n

Baltimore sued online betting giants DraftKings and FanDuel<\/a> in a lawsuit accusing the companies of targeting people with gambling problems, and accused unregulated online casino operators<\/a> of using colorful, gamified imagery to disguise illegal gambling operations.<\/p>\n

The city has also sued lending apps that offer \u201cearned wage access<\/a>\u201d services, which provide an advance on a person\u2019s paycheck that must be paid back with interest.<\/p>\n

Baltimore is not the first to raise legal concerns about Grok\u2019s creation of sexualized images. Thirty-five state attorneys general wrote a letter<\/a> imploring xAI to take steps to protect the public, particularly \u201cthe women and girls who are the overwhelming target\u201d of the images. Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown signed on to the letter.<\/p>\n

California\u2019s attorney general also sent xAI a cease and desist letter<\/a> in January, and the company has faced lawsuits over Grok\u2019s creation of nonconsensual sexual images, including one from teenagers<\/a> who said the AI tool was used to create child sexual abuse material using their images.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city of Baltimore is suing Elon Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence company over nonconsensual sexual images generated using the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21628,21629,6364,21630,2899],"class_list":["post-33905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xai","tag-american-league","tag-baseball","tag-grok","tag-national-league","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}