Labour MP sues Elon Musk’s xAI company over fake sexualised images

Key points

• A Labour MP has taken legal action against Elon Musk’s xAI company after saying its Grok tool helped a user produce fake sexualised pictures of her, part of a wave of such images that flooded the social media platform X earlier this year.
• Jess Asato, the MP for Lowestoft, said in January that seeing herself portrayed by the AI tool as wearing a bikini without her consent was “violating”.
• In a claim submitted to the high court in London, Asato said xAI – now a subsidiary of SpaceX, which also owns Asato told the newspaper that as well as creating images of her in a bikini, Grok also produced a video “showing her being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault”.
• Her legal case follows a similar lawsuit filed in New York state by Ashley St Clair, the mother of one of Musk’s children.
• She alleged explicit images were also...