Lawsuit says xAI’s Grok enabled CSAM and slowed police requests

In short: A proposed class action lawsuit was expanded to add more girls and new claims that X and xAI failed to help investigators after Grok was allegedly used to create child sexual abuse images.

What happened

A proposed class action lawsuit against X and Elon Musk’s AI company xAI was expanded this week. The lawsuit claims Grok, xAI’s chatbot, was used to turn real photos of minors into child sexual abuse material, often called CSAM (illegal sexual images of children).

One case in the amended complaint says a stepfather used Grok to create about 7,000 explicit images and videos using a single photo of his stepdaughter when she was 11. The complaint says Grok did not flag the activity until the man typed a prompt asking for “gang rape.” That prompt reportedly triggered a “CyberTip” report to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, or NCMEC (a nonprofit that receives and routes reports to police).

The lawsuit also claims xAI did not provide key information to help police identify the user, such as an IP address (like a return address for an internet connection), even after repeated requests. The girls’ legal teams cite NCMEC findings that in early 2026, 90 percent of xAI’s CyberTip reports were not useful to law enforcement because they lacked user information.

The amended complaint also adds Stability AI as a defendant. It alleges some “nudify” apps (tools that remove clothing in images) rely on Stability AI models and may have been used alongside Grok.

Why it matters

This case highlights a basic safety issue with image-making AI. If a tool can easily alter a normal photo into something sexual, it can be misused like a photo editor in the wrong hands, but at far larger scale. The lawsuit could push for stricter blocking of sexual content and clearer rules about what companies must share when illegal material is detected.

Source: Arstechnica