A Wyoming woman has joined a class action lawsuit against xAI after her stepfather used the Grok AI chatbot to create over 7,000 sexually explicit deepfakes from childhood photographs, including an image taken when she was 11 years old lying on a couch. The lawsuit alleges the stepfather selected Grok because the platform was less restrictive than other AI models and responded to prompts to generate sexually explicit material depicting prepubescent minors. The case, originally filed by three Tennessee teenagers, could encompass thousands of minors according to court filings, while California Attorney General Rob Bonta and the European Union have launched parallel investigations into xAI's content moderation and child protection safeguards.
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