CALIFORNIA: California attorney general Robert Bonta yesterday sent a cease-and-desist letter to xAI demanding the company stop the creation and distribution of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated nonconsensual sexualised imagery by its Grok chatbot.
“The avalanche of reports detailing this material – at times depicting women and children engaged in sexual activity – is shocking and, as my office has determined, potentially illegal,” said Bonta.
xAI, which is owned by billionaire Republican megadonor Elon Musk, has come under global scrutiny over the past couple of weeks after Grok began flooding the social media site X with nonconsensual images of women and some minors in revealing clothes and degrading poses.