AI Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Follow See All by Emma Roth is a news writer who covers the streaming wars, consumer tech, crypto, social media, and much more. Previously, she was a writer and editor at MUO. Three Tennessee teens are suing Elon Musk’s xAI over claims that the company’s Grok AI chatbot generated sexualized images and videos of themselves as minors, as reported earlier by The Washington Post. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed on Monday, accuses Musk and other xAI leaders of knowing that Grok would produce AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) when launching its “spicy mode” last year. The plaintiffs include two minors and an adult who was underage when the events in the lawsuit took place. One of the victims, identified as “Jane Doe 1,” alleges that last December, she learned that explicit, AI-generated images of herself and at least 18 other minors were available on Discord. “At least five of these files, one video and four images, depicted her actual face and body in settings with which she was familiar, but morphed into sexually explicit poses,” the lawsuit claims. The perpetrator, who has since been arrested, allegedly used Jane Doe 1’s AI-generated CSAM “as a bartering tool in Telegram group chats with hundreds of other users, trading her CSAM files for sexually explicit content of other minors.” The lawsuit claims the perpetrator generated the explicit images of Jane Doe 1 and the two other victims using Grok. It also alleges that xAI “failed to test the safety of the features it developed” and that Grok is “defective in design.”