The lawsuit comes after weeks of mounting backlash against Grok’s ability to generate nonconsensual deepfakes.

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk's 14th child, is suing xAI over Grok's generated sexually explicit images. St. Clair, a conservative influencer, filed the lawsuit against Musk's AI company after the platform allegedly generated and circulated sexual deepfake images of her across X.

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued Musk’s xAI on Wednesday, alleging that the company’s AI chatbot Grok generated sexually explicit deepfake images of her without her consent.

Elon Musk's AI assistant, Grok, is facing scrutiny from governments worldwide. First launched in 2023, Grok aims to compete with AI models like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.

Elon Musk’s AI chatbot has come under intense scrutiny for generating sexualized images of real people—even, reportedly, children. Amid global backlash, social media platform X has taken action.

Trump, for his part, told the New York Times this month that the Civil Rights Act — the 1964 law signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson to help nonwhite American citizens fight decades of segregation and discrimination — “was a reverse discrimination” where “white people were very badly treated.”