Ashley St. Clair Sues Elon Musk’s xAI Over Grok Sexual Images

Jan. 15, 2026, 9:36 PM UTC

Ashley St. Clair, the mother of one of Elon Musk’s children, sued the billionaire’s artificial intelligence company for harassment, accusing xAI’s Grok chatbot of generating sexually explicit images of her without her consent.

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in New York, claims that the chatbot altered real photos of her — including images of her as a child — to depict her naked and in other sexual contexts that were distributed on X, Musk’s social media platform. St. Clair said she made public and private requests for the images to be removed, but xAI failed to take down the ...

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