Ashley St. Clair, a high-profile conservative content creator has said that AI chatbot Grok didn’t stop creating sexually suggestive pictures of her despite saying it would. St. Clair is also reportedly the mother of one of the children of billionaire Elon Musk, who owns the company behind Grok.
Grok “stated that it would not be producing any more of these images of me, and what ensued was countless more images produced by Grok at user requests that were much more explicit, and eventually, some of those were underage,” St. Clair said. “Photos of me of 14 years old, undressed and put in a bikini.”
St. Clair began posting about this issue on Sunday after a friend brought it to attention, according to NBC news. She said that in the first post she saw, a user asked Grok to put her in a bikini. She said that when she asked Grok to remove the post and told it she didn’t consent to the image, it replied that the post was “humorous.”
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From there, the posts only got worse, she said. More people began prompting Grok to create sexualized deepfakes of her, and some of the deepfakes were turned into videos. NBC News has reviewed a selection of the images. Many of the images remained online by Monday evening, though some of the accounts that made the requests to Grok were suspended, and the images taken down.
This incident came after Musk’s social media platform rolled out an “Edit Image” option on photos, a feature that lets any user modify an image through text prompts without seeking permission from the person who originally posted it. Users on X have flagged growing concerns over the past few days about Grok being used to generate nonconsensual sexualized images, including such pictures of minors.
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Nonprofit group AI Forensics analyzed 20,000 images generated by Grok between Dec. 25, 2025, and Jan. 1 and found that 2 per cent depicted a person who appeared to be 18 or younger, including 30 of young or very young women or girls, in bikinis or transparent clothes.
Responding to the allegations, the platform repeated a comment from Musk, who said, “Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.”
As the AI-altered images continue to circulate online, government and advocacy groups have begun drawing attention to the issue. Politico reported that the French authorities would be investigating X over the creation of nonconsensual deepfakes using Grok on the platform.
India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on Tuesday issued a stern notice to X Corp, citing failure to comply with statutory due diligence obligations under the Information Technology Act, 2000 and the IT Rules, 2021. Malaysia, UK and the EU also responded to this issue.