A Wyoming woman claims her stepfather used the AI chatbot to generate more than 7,000 fake sexually explicit photos, and the case now includes a class action on behalf of thousands of minors.
A fourth person has joined the legal action against xAI, alleging that its AI chatbot Grok was used to create child sexual abuse material (CSAM) based on her childhood photos. The Wyoming woman, identified in the lawsuit as Jane Doe 4, stated that her stepfather used Grok to create "thousands of sexually explicit photos of her as a child and shared them online," as reported by the Washington Post and relayed by Klix.ba.
According to the lawsuit, the stepfather created more than 7,000 "fake explicit photos of her using the AI chatbot Grok." Among them is a photo taken when she was 11 years old that was transformed into a sexually explicit image. After state and local law enforcement searched her stepfather's electronic devices for CSAM, he was found dead in his car two days later, with the cause determined to be suicide.
Jane Doe 4 joins three teenage girls from Tennessee who filed the original lawsuit, which alleges that Grok was used to create sexually explicit deepfake photos of them. The class action now claims it could encompass "at least thousands of minors."
Beyond this lawsuit, xAI and Grok have come under scrutiny in multiple CSAM-related investigations. In January 2026, California Attorney General Rob Bonta launched an investigation into xAI, accusing the company of generating unauthorized deepfake nude photos of women and children. Later that month, the European Union also initiated its own investigation into the X platform to determine whether it has adequate measures to prevent the spread of AI-generated CSAM.
At the time of publication, xAI had not responded to a request for comment on the latest expansion of the lawsuit.
