Source: The Guardian

A Labour MP, Jess Asato, has filed a claim in the High Court in London alleging that xAI’s Grok tool enabled a user to generate fake sexualised images of her after she criticised the creation of such non‑consensual pictures. The claim, reported via the Financial Times and set out in the filing, says xAI — described in the reporting as a subsidiary of SpaceX which also owns X — breached laws connected to data protection and the misuse of private information by allowing prompts that produced those images.

Asato, MP for Lowestoft, told reporters that Grok generated pictures portraying her in a bikini and that a video was produced reportedly showing her being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault. Her lawyers frame the case as testing developers’ responsibility for the design and deployment of tools, arguing an image intended to look like and degrade a person should be treated as an image of that person; xAI disputes that view. The report notes a related New York lawsuit by Ashley St Clair alleging explicit Grok‑generated images of her, including one she says showed her as underage. It also records that the UK government threatened action in January, Ofcom opened an inquiry, xAI initially limited creation of such imagery to paying X users then said it would stop editing real people into revealing clothes, and that Grok has been linked to other harms including false identifications of police officers.