Ashley St. Claire, mother one of X’s owner Elon Musk’s children is suing his company for allowing its artificial intelligence to virtually strip her down to her bikini without her consent.
Saint Clair is one of many people over the past few weeks, they have taken their clothes off without the permission of AI X’s chatbot, Grok. The chatbot carefully complies with user requests to remove clothing from multiple women and some apparently minors or pose them in sexual poses or scenarios. The feature sparked outrage from policymakers around the world, who launched investigations and vowed that up-to-date and existing laws should prevent this type of behavior. But so far, Edge found, the bot continues to fulfill requests.
St. Clair filed a lawsuit against xAI in Modern York State, seeking a restraining order to prevent xAI from further misrepresenting her, and on Thursday the case was quickly transferred to federal court. It claims that the company caused public confusion and that the product is “unreasonably dangerous for its intended purpose.” Wall Street Journal previously reported. The argument is similar to those used in other social media cases this year and focuses on product liability in order to circumvent the powerful legal shield for content hosting under Art. 230.
St. Clair is represented by Carrie Goldberg, who is at the forefront of these types of arguments against tech companies. The complaint alleged that Section 230 should not protect xAI because “the material generated and published by Grok is the work of xAI.”
xAI filed his own lawsuit v. St. Clair on Thursday in the Northern District of Texas, arguing that she breached her contract with the company by bringing the dispute in another court when the company’s terms of service require her to bring claims only in a Texas court.
In response to a request for comment sent to xAI’s media email, Edge received what appeared to be an automated response: “Legacy Media Lies.”