A lawsuit alleges that Musk’s chatbot Grok generated sexual images to gain users

Los Angeles.- Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, was sued this Monday in California for allegedly marketing and profiting, knowingly, from the fact that the image generator of its chatbot, Grok, was capable of creating sexually explicit content of real people, including minors. The lawsuit also alleges that the tech company refused to implement industry-standard prevention measures for the creation of child sexual abuse material (CSAM), according to the law firms Baehr-Jones Law and Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein. The legal complaint was filed on behalf of three victims, whose photographs posted on their social media were used to produce CSAM material generated by the artificial intelligence of xAI’s Grok tool, according to court documents. The lawyers detailed in the lawsuit how xAI, under Musk’s direction, deliberately designed Grok to create sexually explicit content and marketed the ‘Spicy Mode’ function “to attract users.”

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Furthermore, the company would have configured the system to assume a “good intention” when users referred to teenagers or girls. “Musk personally popularized and promoted on the X platform Grok’s ability to undress people, fueling a viral trend in which users instructed Grok to digitally undress real women and children,” the lawyers emphasize in the statement.

The Complaints Against Musk’s Company

The lawsuit cites an investigation by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, which estimated that Grok generated approximately three million sexualized images and 23,000 images depicting people appearing to be minors over an eleven-day period, from late December 2025 to early January 2026. Lawyers also accuse Musk’s company of not completely deactivating the function after learning of the investigation, but rather promoting the ‘Spicy Mode’ as a ‘premium’ benefit. The lawsuit also alleges that the technology company grants access licenses to Grok to third parties, using xAI’s servers and platforms to produce CSAM content requested by the clients of these applications, which constitutes an additional source of profit for the company. The lawsuit comes after an investigation by The Washington Post revealed last month that the magnate pushed for a strategic shift in his artificial intelligence company with the aim of increasing Grok’s uptime, ignoring internal warnings about ethical and legal risks. You can also read:

Faced with these accusations, Musk denied having knowledge of images of naked minors produced by his AI.

“Grok will refuse to produce any illegal content. If something unexpected happens due to a computer attack, we fix the error immediately,” the businessman stated.