A class action lawsuit filed by victims of child sexual abuse alleges that Elon Musk's xAI trained its Grok AI model on real child sexual abuse material and enabled users to generate illegal deepfake images. One plaintiff, a former victim whose abuse images have known hash values in FBI databases, claims her material has been found in deepfakes created with Grok and spread on X. The suit alleges xAI generated images depicting the plaintiff and the child sexual abuse series in which she is the victim, and cites an analysis showing Grok created over 3 million sexualized images during an 11-day period between December 2025 and January 2026, at least 23,000 of which appeared to depict minors.
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