BALTIMORE \u2014 Baltimore City is suing Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), for creating “non-consensual sexualized deepfakes” through its AI chatbot known as ‘Grok.’<\/p>\n
The City alleges Grok is responsible for exposing Baltimore residents enmasse to “degrading content, subjecting them to the risk of being targeted themselves.”<\/p>\n
They accuse Musk of promoting such activity citing a picture he reposted of himself in a bikini.<\/p>\n
“One of Grok\u2019s most controversial offerings, Grok Imagine, includes a ‘Spicy’ mode that allows users to generate sexually explicit images and videos,” the lawsuit states.<\/p>\n
Grok’s ‘Spicy’ mode, the City claims, allows users to \u201cundress or nudify photos of third parties\u2014ranging from celebrities to private citizens, including children\u2014placing them in sexually suggestive, degrading, or violent scenarios.”<\/p>\n
The lawsuit highlights two specific examples of this, including Grok placing “donut glaze” on a child’s face in an inappropriate sexual manner.<\/p>\n
Another victim claims Grok “non-consensually undressed her,” leading to fake sexually obscene images of her spreading online.<\/p>\n
According to the lawsuit, Grok generated approximately 3,000,000 sexualized images between December 29, 2025 and January 8, 2026 \u2014 23,000 of which appear to depict children.<\/p>\n
Baltimore is asking a City Circuit Court judge to order X to “cease the targeting and exploitation of Baltimore\u2019s residents” and requiring them “to reform their exploitative platform design feature restrictions and enhanced marketing restrictions.”<\/p>\n
The City is being represented in the case by their own law department and the DiCello Levitt firm.<\/p>\n
X hasn’t responded to our request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BALTIMORE \u2014 Baltimore City is suing Elon Musk’s social media platform, X (formerly Twitter), for creating “non-consensual sexualized…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[34439,34440,34441,34442,34443,25,6364,2899],"class_list":["post-59433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xai","tag-elonmusk","tag-ai-deepfakes","tag-ai-generated-photos","tag-ai-generated-pictures","tag-ai-driven-harms","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-grok","tag-xai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59433","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=59433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}