One childhood photograph became thousands of abuse images — and the woman in them has joined a federal case against Grok's owner

The Washington Post reported on 15 August the account of a Wyoming woman in her twenties, named in court papers as Jane Doe 4. She says her stepfather took a single photograph of her from when she was about 11 and used Grok to generate roughly 7,000 sexually explicit images and videos of her as a child, then shared and traded them online. She and a plaintiff from Wisconsin joined a case originally brought by three Tennessee teenagers; the amended complaint was filed in July. The suit alleges that the company — xAI, renamed SpaceXAI after its merger into SpaceX — failed to report suspected child sexual exploitation to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, as US law requires of it. Five further plaintiffs sued the company this month, and it has itself sued a user over the same kind of misuse.

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