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<\/p>\nJess Asato lodged the “High Court claim against xAI, the company behind Grok” on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
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UK MP sues Musk’s xAI. Picture: AFP<\/p>\n
A British lawmaker has filed a case at London’s High Court against Elon Musk’s 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 “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
What happened to me was unacceptable – but it\u2019s just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n
A Jewish woman was put in a bikini in Auschwitz.<\/p>\n
Women were put in ball-gags for speaking out.<\/p>\n
Women were covered in imitation semen.<\/p>\n
And all because xAI did not build Grok with safety in mind. pic.twitter.com\/6HVEFpXg1X<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Jess Asato MP (@Jess4Lowestoft) June 4, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n An online boom in non-consensual deepfakes 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 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 \u2013 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 AFP has contacted xAI for comment.<\/p>\n Find us on social media<\/p>\n Follow the ECR Newswatch\u00a0WhatsApp channel\u00a0here<\/a><\/p>\n We are also on\u00a0Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0X<\/a>\u00a0(formerly Twitter)<\/p>\n MORE ON ECR<\/p>\n ![\"newswatch](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Listen_to_latest_news_both_stations_3.original.png\")
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