xAI can’t deny Grok makes CSAM anymore. So it’s suing users.

xAI has filed its first lawsuit against a user it accuses of exploiting Grok, the chatbot built by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, to generate illegal content. According to Ars Technica, the suit — filed Tuesday amid growing pressure on the company to acknowledge that Grok can still be used to produce non-consensual sexualized images of adults and minors — targets Terry Wayne Harwood, who was arrested earlier this year on charges of possessing and distributing child sexual abuse material. The company says it helped bring about that arrest after finding that Harwood had used two xAI accounts over several months to alter non-sexual images of multiple victims, including a girl who appeared to be as young as ten.

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