A British lawmaker has filed a case at London\u2019s High Court against Elon Musk\u2019s xAI after its Grok chatbot tool was used to create fake sexualised images of her, including in a bikini.<\/p>\n
Jess Asato, of the ruling Labour Party, said she lodged the \u201cHigh Court claim against xAI, the company behind Grok\u201d on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Grok sparked a global outcry earlier this year for allowing users to create and share sexualised pictures of women.<\/p>\n
Researchers said it had generated an estimated three million sexualised images in a matter of days.<\/p>\n
Asato said she was \u201cjust one of the thousands of women and even children who have been the victim of abusive and sexualised AI deepfakes\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis should never have happened \u2014 and xAI must be held accountable,\u201d she posted Wednesday on X, the social media platform also owned by Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/p>\n
An online boom in\u00a0non-consensual deepfakes is outpacing global efforts to regulate the technology amid a proliferation of AI tools, including \u201cnudification\u201d apps, according to experts.<\/p>\n
Asato said on X on Thursday that Grok users had made images of her in a bikini and also created an AI generated video of her being sexually assaulted.<\/p>\n
The abuse in January came after she spoke out after the rollout of the editing feature on Grok, developed by the tech billionaire\u2019s startup xAI and integrated into X.<\/p>\n
The function allowed users to alter online images of real people with simple text prompts such as \u201cput her in a bikini\u201d or \u201cremove her clothes\u201d.<\/p>\n
X reacted to the controversy by saying it would make changes to stop the creation of sexualised deepfakes of children and women.<\/p>\n
But the scandal spurred governments and regulators around the world.<\/p>\n
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The European Union opened a probe into Grok in January and EU lawmakers and countries agreed to ban artificial intelligence systems generating sexualised deepfakes on Thursday.<\/p>\n
X\u2019s algorithms are also under investigation in France, while UK media and data regulators are also investigating its technology.<\/p>\n
Speaking in parliament in January, Asato said AI was being used to \u201chumiliate and sexualise women\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have also had my own treatment and been stripped into a bikini by AI on X. Much less than many victims have suffered but a reminder of what many thousands of women face daily,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
AWO, a law firm that is representing Asato, said her claim against xAI was for \u201cbreaches of data protection law and misuse of her private information, seeking accountability from xAI\u201d.<\/p>\n
Her lawyer, Ravi Naik, said AI should not be exempt from legal consequences when it inflicted \u201ca wrong\u201d and the law should provide a remedy.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis content existed because of design choices made by engineers at xAI. It is built deliberately,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cGrok was designed in a way that permitted the creation of non-consensual, sexualised and misogynistic images of women -\u2013 and that outcome was a choice, not a glitch.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the case would be \u201cone of the first claims to test liability for the design of an AI system\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe hope it will make it clear to AI developers that safety cannot be an afterthought,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
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