A proposed class-action lawsuit alleges that Elon Musk’s xAI used real and AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to train Grok’s image and video systems. The claimant, identified as Jane Doe, says AI-generated images depicting her were found on xAI after she was abused as a young child, causing renewed trauma; the case could test xAI’s legal responsibility for generating, retaining and potentially training on such material.

Doe alleges that images of her, long identified through child-safety hash lists, were included in xAI’s training data, although the complaint provides limited detail supporting that specific claim. It more extensively argues that public X posts and Grok outputs are used for training by default, meaning AI-generated CSAM may feed back into the model; the lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction for victims whose childhood images allegedly informed Grok-generated CSAM.