Three Tennessee teens file proposed class action alleging xAI’s Grok generated sexualized images using their photos

Who is suing, and what are they alleging?

Three Tennessee young women—two of them minors—filed a proposed class action alleging xAI knowingly designed Grok’s image-generation features in a way that enabled users to create sexualized images or videos using real photos of identifiable people, including them. Reuters,NPR,Verge

Where was the lawsuit filed and what does it seek?

The complaint was filed in federal court in San Jose, California, and seeks class-action status for U.S. individuals who were “reasonably identifiable” in sexualized Grok-generated images or videos based on real images of themselves. Reuters,Business Insider

What has xAI said about limiting sexually explicit image generation in Grok?

After backlash over sexually explicit Grok outputs, xAI said in January it blocked users from editing images of “real people in revealing clothing” and from generating certain images of real people. Reuters,Jerusalem Post