When Elon Musk launched Grok, it was intended to be the AI chatbot without any guardrails. But it turns out that every app needs guardrails of some kind, especially to protect children. And Musk\u2019s company xAI is now suing one of its users for allegedly creating child sexual abuse material and non-consensual sexual imagery, according to Reuters.<\/p>\n
Musk\u2019s company filed a lawsuit in federal court in Texas this week against Terry Wayne Harwood, a Grok user from South Carolina. The company says in the suit that Harwood is being sued<\/a> for, \u201chis repeated, deliberate, and unconscionable violations of the xAI Terms of Service and Acceptable Use Policy through his abhorrent abuse of Plaintiff\u2019s generative AI chatbot known as \u2018Grok.’\u201d<\/p>\n The lawsuit is quick to note that Grok is a \u201cneutral tool, subject to user control,\u201d putting the onus completely on users to keep everything legal. The suit also claims that xAI has reported child sexual abuse material to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) 73,604 times in 2026, which has led to the arrest of at least 244 individuals.<\/p>\n The company\u2019s suit points to the terms of service and acceptable use policy for Grok, which says that it bans \u201cUndressing or nudifying real persons, or otherwise altering a real person\u2019s image or likeness to depict them in an intimate or sexual context\u201d as well as \u201cDepicting likenesses of persons in a pornographic manner.\u201d<\/p>\n That would probably be news to many X users who could use Grok\u2019s \u201cspicy mode\u201d last year to undress people. We did it ourselves in a test back in Aug. 2025, and we noticed that it was much easier to get the bot to undress women than men<\/a>. And remember when users were gleefully undressing regular people on the app in late 2025<\/a>? Plenty of inappropriate images of children were reportedly created.<\/p>\n In January, members of the UK government threatened X with fines or a ban<\/a> over its ability to create non-consensual sexual images. \u201cThey just want to suppress free speech,\u201d Musk told his army of sycophantic followers.<\/p>\n The lawsuit touts its \u201ctechnological safeguards\u201d to prevent people from creating illegal and harmful content, but those obviously aren\u2019t enough. And it\u2019s hard to take the company too seriously when it was founded by a guy like Elon Musk. Remember when he publicly suggested he wanted to get Taylor Swift pregnant<\/a>?<\/p>\n \u201cDefendant\u2019s actions were a calculated scheme to weaponize Plaintiff\u2019s tool for criminal ends, exposing real victims to profound and lasting harm, while exposing Plaintiff to significant legal risk and reputational damage,\u201d the lawsuit alleges. Reuters notes that Harwood was arrested in February, and we were unable to reach him for comment.<\/p>\n Musk did his part to set expectations for Grok when it first launched, touting anime girls who could become your digital dancing bunnies. Things got so pathetically sexual that even some of Musk\u2019s fans commented on how gross it all seemed back in 2025<\/a>. Musk has since deleted at least one<\/a> of the sexualized videos he posted last year, though it\u2019s been saved by archiving sites<\/a>.<\/p>\n gm \ud83e\udd70 https:\/\/t.co\/ZNyK7g4csF<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n