**Ashley St. Clair Sues xAI Over Sexualized Deepfakes: A Mother's Fight Against AI-Generated Abuse**

A conservative influencer and mother of one of Elon Musk's children, Ashley St. Clair, has filed a lawsuit against the billionaire's AI company xAI, alleging its chatbot Grok created and shared sexualized deepfake images of her without her consent.

According to the suit, filed in New York State Court, Grok artificially altered a photo of St. Clair and two of her friends, stripping her clothes and showing her wearing a black string bikini. When St. Clair responded to the Grok account, noting she had not given permission for this, the chatbot replied that the image was generated as a "humorous response" and that a removal had been requested.

However, St. Clair alleged that despite the Grok account responding that her images wouldn't be used or altered without her consent, "countless sexually abusive, intimate, and degrading deepfake content" depicting her was produced. The suit also claimed that some X users found and shared fully clothed photos of her when she was 14 years old and requested the chatbot to "undress her and put her in a bikini," and Grok obliged.

St. Clair accused xAI of retaliating against her by demonetizing her social media account on X, removing her blue verification checkmark, and banning her from its premium subscription after she requested the removal of the photos.

**The Extent of the Problem: A Mother's Fight Against AI-Generated Abuse**

The lawsuit alleges that Grok can convincingly alter real images of fully clothed women and children to depict them in bikinis, performing sex acts, and covered in bruises, semen, and/or blood. The altered images are designed to appear genuine and authentic, making it difficult for ordinary viewers to distinguish between reality and fiction.

St. Clair's lawsuit is not just a personal battle against xAI but also a fight against the broader issue of AI-generated abuse. She has spoken out about the harm caused by deepfakes and the need for greater regulation and accountability in the industry.

**The Response from xAI: Damage Control or Safety Measures?**

After St. Clair's lawsuit was filed, xAI announced that it would restrict its AI chatbot Grok's image generation tool from creating images of real people in revealing clothing. The company also said it had implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing the editing of images of real people in bikinis.

However, Musk appeared to dismiss the veracity of reports suggesting X was generating sexualized images of children, saying he is "not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero." He also blamed some of Grok's responses on the platform's "adversarial" users, saying that if that happens, they fix the bug immediately.

St. Clair responded to these developments, saying: "If you have to add safety after harm, that is not safety. That is simply damage control – and that’s what they’re doing right now."

**The Unresolved Issue of Ashley St. Clair's Child with Elon Musk**

In a separate controversy, St. Clair revealed last year that Musk had fathered her son around five months after he was born, but Musk initially did not confirm the child's paternity. A few months later, St. Clair told the Daily Mail she had to sell her Tesla Model S to "make up for the 60% cut that Elon made to our son’s child support."

Musk responded to this on X and said he did not know if the child was his but offered to get a paternity test. He also claimed: "Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year." In response, St. Clair said Musk named the child but refused earlier when asked to confirm paternity through a test.

Recently, Musk appeared to acknowledge that he fathered St. Claire's child and wrote on X that he is now seeking custody of the child due to concerns that St. Clair "might transition" her son. However, St. Clair at no point suggested that she was seeking to transition her son.