Elon Musk's Grok creates explicit photos of his ex! ‘Disgusted’ Ashley St. Clair considers legal action

Ashley St. Clair, an author and influencer who claims to be the mother of one of Elon Musk's many children, has accused her billionaire ex's company, xAI, of enabling its chatbot Grok to create sexually explicit, manipulated images of her. She said she was considering legal action against xAI.

Over the past week, X has been flooded with sexually suggestive photos of women and children, with people asking Grok to generate what can be called vulgar images. Complaints of abuse flooded the internet after the recent rollout of an "edit image" button on Grok.

In an interview with Fortune on Monday, Ashley St. Clair said that she had been contacted by multiple other women who had similar experiences, moments after she spoke on the issue publicly on X. She said that she had reviewed inappropriate images of minors created by Grok and was considering taking legal action over the photos.

Disgusted and violated

Ashley St. Clair, earlier in a series of posts on X, had called out Grok, accusing it of generating explicit images of her as a child.

“Grok is now undressing photos of me as a child. This is a website where the owner says to post photos of your children. I really don't care if people want to call me “scorned”; this is objectively horrifying, illegal, and if it has happened to anybody else, DM me. I got time,” she had written on X.

In the interview, she said that after seeing the images, she immediately replied, tagged Grok and said she did not consent to the images.

“[Grok] noted that I don’t consent to these images being produced…and then it continued producing the images, and they only got more explicit,” she told Fortune.

She revealed that Grok had created photos of her with “nothing covering me except a piece of floss with my toddler’s backpack in the background and photos of me where it looks like I’m not wearing a top at all.”

“I felt so disgusted and violated. I also felt so angry that there were other women and children that this had been happening to,” she said.

xAI, Grok land in trouble

Elon Musk's Grok and xAI are facing a growing international backlash over the images, with countries including India, France, Britain and Malaysia initiating a probe against the company.

On 2 January, the Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) sent a notice to X asking it to immediately remove all vulgar, obscene and unlawful content generated by Grok within 72 hours or face action. On Tuesday, it extended the deadline by 48 hours.

The European Commission, which is the EU's executive body that enforces digital laws and oversees regulation, joined the chorus on Monday, saying it was "very seriously looking" into the complaints about Grok, developed by Musk's startup xAI and integrated into his social media platform X.

X's Safety account said on Sunday that it removes all illegal content on the platform and permanently suspends accounts involved.

"Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content," it said.