My prediction. Lawyers for X:The Everything App's pervert and nonce image-generating and nudification tool will successfully argue that the creators and owners of Grok cannot be held legally responsible for anything illegal users ask it to make, nor for anything illegal users publish via its platforms.The mother of one of Elon Musk’s children is suing his company – alleging explicit images were generated of her by his Grok AI tool, including one in which she was underage.
Ashley St Clair has filed a lawsuit with the supreme court of the state of New York against xAI, alleging that Grok, which is used on the social media platform X, promised to stop generating explicit images but continued to do so.
She is seeking punitive and compensatory damages, claiming dozens of sexually explicit and degrading deepfake images were created by Grok...
However, while users retain some rights of ownership to their input (i.e. prompts) under the xAI terms of service, those same TOS grant the company a wide-ranging license to retain absolute rights of possession, use, modification, distribution, and destruction of the output generated by users.
In other words, xAI's absolute ownership of the pervy and nonce images generated by Grok users will not bar them from successfully arguing that the company, its employees, or owners, are not legally responsible for any illegal content they own, facilitate, produce, or publish.
