Child sexual abuse survivor alleges Elon Musk’s AI chatbot used photos of her to generate new illegal images

Musk denied he was aware Grok ever produced ‘any naked underage images’

A survivor of child sexual abuse has sued Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that its chatbot used pictures of her abuse to generate new illegal pornographic images that depict her.

“Using real images of Plaintiff and class members, Grok generated child pornography depicting Plaintiff and class members,” states the complaint, which was filed last week in a US district court in California.

Attorneys for the plaintiff, who is listed as Jane Doe in the case to protect her identity, accuse xAI of both generating CSAM of their client and of ingesting child sexual abuse images depicting her into the company’s datasets after new images were publicly posted.

4 Comments

Piatro@programming.dev · 4 pts · 11d

He denies he was aware of a thing that everyone who even passively follows news knows. Sure.

ISO@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 11d (1 reply)

child protection organizations frequently give those illegal materials a kind of digital fingerprint – known as a hash – which allows them to track images and videos when they appear online.

In this case, attorneys for the plaintiff stated that the Canadian Centre for Child Protection used images’ fingerprints to identify AI-generated CSAM on X that depicted their client.

Bullshit detected! Those hashes are literally data checksums. So they can't be used to identify anything but the exact same original image!

alapakala@quokk.au · 1 pts · 11d

uhhhhhh, that's exactly how Canadian Centre for Child Protection identified the seeded output came from a stored model…
you can't have a modeller without original trained data, otherwise a diffusion wouldn't take place…

Avicenna@programming.dev · 2 pts · 12d

A chatbot trained on Elon's likeness, not surprised.