
The Elon Musk-owned xAI is suing a South Carolina man who allegedly used the company’s Grok AI chatbot to generate child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In a lawsuit reported earlier by Reuters, xAI claims Terry Wayne Harwood « knowingly and intentionally used Grok to circumvent safeguards, alter nonconsensual images, and generate and distribute CSAM, » breaching the company’s policies.
Harwood was arrested in February for allegedly possessing and distributing CSAM and is facing eight felony charges. The lawsuit claims « at least some » of the images related to Harwood’s criminal charges « were generated or altered » with Grok, and that Harwood byp …