Elon Musk leaves a meeting with House Republicans in the basement of the US Capitol building on March 5, 2025 in Washington, DC. <\/span>Samuel Corum\/Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Tennessee teenagers are suing<\/a><\/span> Elon Musk\u2019s company xAI over allegations that its artificial intelligence tool Grok undressed photos of them as minors\u2014the latest challenge against the wealthiest living person\u2019s chatbot<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The three plaintiffs, two of whom are currently minors, are seeking damages after AI-generated images of them spread across Discord and Telegram and were eventually used as bartering tools for users to obtain other child sexual abuse material, according to the complaint detailed<\/a> in new Washington Post<\/em> reporting.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cxAI\u2014and its founder Elon Musk,\u201d the complaint reads, \u201csaw a business opportunity: an opportunity to profit off the sexual predation of real people, including children.\u201d<\/p>\n One of the plaintiffs said she received a link to a Discord server \u201cwhich contained images and videos of at least 18 other minor females, many of whom Jane Doe 1 recognized from her school,\u201d the lawsuit alleges.\u00a0<\/p>\n Some of the images stemmed from her homecoming or yearbook photos.\u00a0<\/p>\n The lawsuit comes after months of backlash against Musk\u2019s chatbot after the company allowed Grok to undress people nonconsensually using the \u201cImagine\u201d tool. The complaint argues that a \u201cmodel that can create sexualized images of adults cannot be prevented from creating CSAM of minors.\u201d According to earlier reporting<\/a> from the Post<\/em>, Grok\u2019s previous leniency towards fulfilling users\u2019 sexually explicit requests was a marketing technique, meant to increase the popularity of the chatbot.\u00a0<\/p>\n Musk and his company didn\u2019t respond to the Post<\/em> in their coverage of the Tennessee lawsuit. Musk has repeatedly<\/a> placed responsibility onto the individual users requesting such content and has held<\/a> that Grok \u201cwill refuse to produce anything illegal,\u201d despite the chatbot itself, in at least one instance, posting<\/a> that its actions might have violated the 2025 TAKE IT DOWN Act, legislation criminalizing<\/a> the nonconsensual publication of intimate images, including AI-generated deepfakes.<\/p>\n According to an investigation<\/a> by the Center for Countering Digital Hate, Grok generated approximately 3 million sexualized images in just an 11-day period, from December 29 to January 8. Around 23,000 of those, according to researchers, appeared to depict children. In a January 14 post, Musk claimed that he was \u201cnot aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero.\u201d<\/p>\n Later than month, 35 state attorneys general penned<\/a> a letter to xAI demanding the company \u201ctake all necessary measures to ensure that Grok is no longer capable of producing\u201d this kind of nonconsensual sexual imagery and child sexual abuse material. The European Union and regulators<\/a> in the United Kingdom and California have launched<\/a> investigations<\/a> into Grok.\u00a0<\/p>\n In January, following rising international ethical and legal objections to the mass spread of nonconsensual sexual imagery, some of Grok\u2019s Imagine image generation features were limited<\/a> to paid X users. Yet Grok image tools are still seemingly offered for free on the standalone website and application. And even if restricting elements of the service to paying users could limit the quantity of material, introducing a nominal fee for those hoping to create nonconsensual sexual imagery of people, including minors, doesn\u2019t answer a key legal question: Will Grok be meaningfully changed to protect women and girls from this kind of digital abuse?<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.motherjones.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/317_musk_2000.jpg\")