UK MP Seeks High Court Order Against xAI Over Grok’s Sexualised Images
Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, has asked the High Court in London to force Elon Musk’s xAI to stop its Grok chatbot from generating sexualised images of her. This sharpens a claim that could help establish how far an AI company is responsible for what its tools produce.
Asato seeks a court order compelling permanent technical safeguards to prevent Grok from creating manipulated images of her, according to Reuters. The request builds on a claim she lodged at the High Court in June, alleging misuse of private information and breach of UK data protection law.
The case arose from images users prompted Grok to make earlier this year after Asato criticised Musk and the chatbot publicly. Among the materials cited is a video depicting her being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault.
Asato wants to rebalance individual rights against large tech companies and argues that the design and training of Grok enabled the content to be produced. Her solicitor, Ravi Naik, stated that the company’s decisions “should carry legal consequences” and that the desired remedy “includes a court order to bring the systems into compliance if xAI refuses.”
The claim references internal instructions that allegedly told the model to refuse help with criminal activity while stating it had "no restrictions on adult sexual content or offensive content." xAI has not yet filed a defence, and no allegations have been tested in court.
Apple privately threatened to remove Grok from its App Store over non-consensual deepfakes earlier this year, and French prosecutors are investigating child sexual imagery linked to the tool.
The UK’s Online Safety Act, which Musk has criticised as a threat to free speech, requires platforms to tackle illegal material. Asato’s claim, however, is a civil matter focusing on direct corporate responsibility for AI-generated content.