{"id":62344,"date":"2026-06-04T15:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/62344\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T15:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T15:42:08","slug":"uk-mp-sues-musks-xai-over-fake-sexualised-images-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/62344\/","title":{"rendered":"UK MP sues Musk’s xAI over fake sexualised images"},"content":{"rendered":"

A British lawmaker has filed a case at London’s High Court against Elon Musk’s xAI<\/a> after its Grok chatbot<\/a> tool was used to create fake sexualised images<\/a> of her, including in a bikini.<\/p>\n

Jess Asato<\/a>, of the ruling Labour Party<\/a>, said she lodged the “High Court claim against xAI, the company behind Grok” 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 “just one of the thousands of women and even children who have been the victim of abusive and sexualised AI deepfakes”.<\/p>\n

“This should never have happened — and xAI must be held accountable,” she posted Wednesday on X, the social media platform also owned by Musk’s SpaceX.<\/p>\n

An online boom in non-consensual deepfakes<\/a> is outpacing global efforts to regulate the technology amid a proliferation of AI tools, including “nudification” 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’s 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 “put her in a bikini” or “remove her clothes”.<\/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

Accountability<\/p>\n

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’s 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 “humiliate and sexualise women”.<\/p>\n

“I 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,” she said.<\/p>\n

AWO<\/a>, a law firm that is representing Asato, said her claim against xAI was for “breaches of data protection law and misuse of her private information, seeking accountability from xAI”.<\/p>\n

Her lawyer, Ravi Naik, said AI should not be exempt from legal consequences when it inflicted “a wrong” and the law should provide a remedy.<\/p>\n

“This content existed because of design choices made by engineers at xAI. It is built deliberately,” he said.<\/p>\n

“Grok was designed in a way that permitted the creation of non-consensual, sexualised and misogynistic images of women — and that outcome was a choice, not a glitch.”<\/p>\n

He said the case would be “one of the first claims to test liability for the design of an AI system”.<\/p>\n

“We hope it will make it clear to AI developers that safety cannot be an afterthought,” he said.<\/p>\n

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