{"id":28959,"date":"2026-03-17T11:40:49","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=28959"},"modified":"2026-03-17T11:40:49","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T09:40:49","slug":"us-minors-sue-musks-xai-alleging-grok-generated-sexual-images-of-them","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/us-minors-sue-musks-xai-alleging-grok-generated-sexual-images-of-them\/","title":{"rendered":"US minors sue Musk&#8217;s xAI, alleging Grok generated sexual images of them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"auto\">The lawsuit, filed in the San Jose, California federal court, is seeking class-action status for people in the US who were &#8220;reasonably identifiable&#8221; in sexualized images or videos generated by Grok based on real images of themselves.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">After an outcry over sexually explicit content generated by the chatbot, xAI said in January that it had blocked all users from editing images of &#8220;real people in revealing clothing&#8221; and from generating images of people in revealing clothing in &#8220;jurisdictions where it&#8217;s illegal.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Governments and regulators around the world have also since launched probes, imposed bans and demanded safeguards in a growing push to curb illegal and offensive material. The lawsuit claims xAI failed \u200cto \u2060install safeguards to prevent its systems from generating sexual content involving minors. All three plaintiffs were minors at the time the images were generated. Plaintiffs allege their real images were digitally altered into explicit content and then shared online through platforms, \u2060causing emotional distress and creating a public nuisance.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":22490,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-28959","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Three plaintiffs in the United States (US) state of Tennessee, including two minors, sued Elon Musk's xAI on Monday, alleging that it knowingly designed its Grok image generator to let people create sexually explicit content by \u200cusing real photos of others","published_date":"2026-03-17 00:00:00","news_description":"Three plaintiffs in the United States (US) state of Tennessee, including two minors, sued Elon Musk's xAI on Monday, alleging that it knowingly designed its Grok image generator to let people create sexually explicit content by \u200cusing real photos of others","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28960,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/28959\/revisions\/28960"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=28959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}