Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
Lawsuit: Man used Grok to make 7K sex images of stepdaughter, then shot himself
诉讼：男子利用 Grok 制作 7000 张继女色情图片后自杀
One of the most horrific cases of allegedly Grok-generated child sex images was shared in a proposed class action lawsuit that was expanded Tuesday. Now, young girls not only accuse X and xAI of building toxic AI “nudify” tools but also of shielding child predators by obstructing police investigations into Grok-generated child sex abuse materials (CSAM).
周二，一起拟议的集体诉讼案进行了扩展，披露了据称由 Grok 生成的最骇人听闻的儿童色情图片案件之一。目前，受害少女不仅指控 X 和 xAI 开发了有毒的 AI“脱衣”工具，还指控其通过阻挠警方对 Grok 生成的儿童性虐待材料（CSAM）的调查，从而包庇儿童性掠夺者。
In March, a girl’s stepfather took his own life after cops discovered that he had used Grok to create 7,000 sexually explicit images using one photo taken when his stepdaughter was 11 years old, the amended complaint alleged. Grok allowed the man to generate extreme images depicting incest and rape without flagging any harmful behavior, the complaint said.
修正后的诉状称，今年 3 月，一名女孩的继父在警方发现他利用 Grok 制作了 7000 张露骨色情图片后自杀身亡，这些图片均源自他继女 11 岁时的一张照片。诉状指出，Grok 允许该男子生成描绘乱伦和强奸等极端内容的图片，且未标记任何有害行为。
Seemingly, xAI’s child safety system only intervened after the man input a prompt for “gang rape.” That request sent a CyberTip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which alerted law enforcement to the AI CSAM. Yet the harm was not stopped then, either.
看起来，xAI 的儿童安全系统仅在该男子输入“轮奸”提示词后才进行了干预。该请求向美国国家失踪与受虐儿童中心（NCMEC）发送了网络举报，随后该中心向执法部门通报了这些 AI 生成的儿童性虐待材料。然而，伤害并未就此停止。
Despite mandatory reporting requirements to share information like a user’s IP address when CSAM is flagged, xAI repeatedly refused to help cops or NCMEC identify the user, the complaint alleged. For weeks, xAI allegedly “obstructed this investigation at every turn” and made it harder for “law enforcement efforts to locate, identify, and apprehend the perpetrator.”
诉状称，尽管在标记出儿童性虐待材料时有强制报告要求，需共享用户 IP 地址等信息，但 xAI 一再拒绝协助警方或 NCMEC 识别用户身份。据称，xAI 在数周内“处处阻挠调查”，使得“执法部门定位、识别并逮捕犯罪嫌疑人的工作”变得更加困难。
Eventually, the stepfather was arrested after cops obtained a warrant to seize his devices. That’s when “a forensic review revealed approximately 7,000 AI-generated images and videos” depicting his stepdaughter, which were allegedly produced using Grok. Without Grok providing users with easy access to “undressing” capabilities, his family doubts he ever would have generated the harmful images, which he allegedly trafficked online in trade for “CSAM produced by other child sex predators.”
最终，警方在获得搜查令扣押其设备后逮捕了该继父。随后，“法医审查揭示了约 7000 张由 AI 生成的描绘其继女的图片和视频”，这些内容据称均由 Grok 制作。其家人认为，如果不是 Grok 为用户提供了便捷的“脱衣”功能，他根本不会生成这些有害图片，而他据称还在网上用这些图片交换“其他儿童性掠夺者制作的儿童性虐待材料”。
Two days after the man was released on bail, he shot himself, the complaint said, throwing the young girl—known as Jane Doe 4 in the complaint—into “a period of extreme personal crisis.” Among harms, she now suffers from anxiety and depression, as well as “struggles with suicidal thoughts.” “Overnight, Jane Doe 4’s entire reality was shattered by the dual tragedies of child sexual exploitation and suicide,” the lawsuit alleged. “Her family was torn apart, and her life became a nightmare.”
诉状称，该男子在保释两天后开枪自杀，这使诉状中被称为“简·多伊 4 号”（Jane Doe 4）的少女陷入了“极度个人危机”。她目前患有焦虑症和抑郁症，并“饱受自杀念头的困扰”。诉讼称：“一夜之间，简·多伊 4 号的整个世界因儿童性剥削和自杀的双重悲剧而破碎。她的家庭分崩离析，生活变成了一场噩梦。”
xAI allegedly shielded predators
xAI 被指包庇掠夺者
In a press release, the girls’ legal teams at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein and Baehr-Jones Law said that Jane Doe 4’s case is not an outlier. They noted that NCMEC found in early 2026 that 90 percent of xAI’s CyberTipline reports “were not actionable by law enforcement because xAI declined to include user information that would allow law enforcement to track and locate perpetrators.”
在新闻发布会上，代表受害女孩的 Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein 和 Baehr-Jones Law 律师事务所表示，简·多伊 4 号的案件并非个例。他们指出，NCMEC 在 2026 年初发现，xAI 90% 的网络举报“无法被执法部门采取行动，因为 xAI 拒绝提供能让执法部门追踪和定位犯罪嫌疑人的用户信息”。
As the lawyers explained: “Jane Doe 4’s case shows how that pattern played out: xAI’s mandatory report to NCMEC included only the original, non-CSAM photograph, omitted every one of the AI-generated CSAM images, and failed to include the IP address where these images were created. Despite repeated requests from investigators for this location information that is critical for identifying and arresting perpetrators, xAI did not respond, stymieing the investigation for weeks.”
律师们解释道：“简·多伊 4 号的案件展示了这种模式是如何运作的：xAI 向 NCMEC 提交的强制报告仅包含了原始的、非儿童性虐待材料的照片，遗漏了所有 AI 生成的儿童性虐待图片，且未包含生成这些图片的 IP 地址。尽管调查人员一再要求提供对识别和逮捕犯罪嫌疑人至关重要的位置信息，但 xAI 始终未予回应，导致调查停滞了数周。”
Allegedly, xAI avoids sharing this information to prioritize profits over child safety. In the press release, Jane Doe 4 accused X of going “silent” after Grok turned “a photo of me as a little girl sleeping on the couch, wearing an oversized panda pajama shirt” into “thousands of sexually explicit images of me—images so horrific I can’t even begin to describe them.”
据称，xAI 避免共享这些信息是为了将利润置于儿童安全之上。在新闻发布会上，简·多伊 4 号指责 X 在 Grok 将“我小时候睡在沙发上、穿着超大号熊猫睡衣的照片”变成“数千张我的露骨色情图片——那些图片恐怖到我无法描述”之后，选择了“沉默”。
“They had everything they needed to help law enforcement stop the person responsible and achieve justice. Instead, they remained silent and allowed this person to use Grok to steal my childhood,” Jane Doe 4 said. “This technology is a free, easily accessible weapon put into the hands of the worst people in the world. What is so dangerous is there is no way to prevent a predator from taking any photograph—not just a photograph on the internet—but any photo of a child and using this technology to create images from your worst nightmares. No one is safe—not adults, not children, not anyone.”
“他们拥有帮助执法部门阻止肇事者并实现正义所需的一切信息。然而，他们却保持沉默，任由这个人利用 Grok 偷走了我的童年，”简·多伊 4 号说道。“这项技术是一种免费且易于获取的武器，被交到了世界上最坏的人手中。最危险的是，没有任何办法能阻止掠夺者获取任何照片——不仅仅是网上的照片，而是任何一张儿童照片——并利用这项技术创造出你噩梦中最恐怖的画面。没有人是安全的——无论是成年人、儿童，还是任何人。”
Another girl who came forward on Tuesday, Jane Doe 5, was also targeted by a known acquaintance, an adult family friend who similarly trafficked alleged Grok-generated images online. That girl was only notified after cops arrested the perpetrator and charged him with “extensive possession and distribution of CSAM content,” which was “limited to non-AI generated CSAM,” the complaint said. Her mother blames xAI for Jane Doe 5’s abuse, saying that because of Grok, “my daughter is filled with anxiety and feels a complete lack of control over who has seen these images. No child should ever have to go through this.”
周二站出来的另一名女孩“简·多伊 5 号”也遭到了熟人的侵害，那是一位成年家庭朋友，他同样在网上贩卖据称由 Grok 生成的图片。诉状称，该女孩直到警方逮捕了肇事者并指控其“大量持有和分发儿童性虐待内容”（仅限于非 AI 生成的儿童性虐待材料）后才得知此事。她的母亲将简·多伊 5 号受到的虐待归咎于 xAI，称因为 Grok，“我的女儿充满了焦虑，对谁看过这些照片感到完全无法掌控。没有任何孩子应该经历这些。”
xAI founder Elon Musk has denied that Grok has ever been used to generate child sex images. However, researchers have estimated that Grok’s lax safeguards—which allow users to make “spicy” requests to undress images—have harmed tens of thousands of kids without meaningful intervention. So far, xAI’s only action has been to charge for the feature, which the complaint alleged just ensures that xAI profits from all Grok-generated CSAM. X and xAI did not respond to Ars’ request to comment.
xAI 创始人埃隆·马斯克曾否认 Grok 被用于生成儿童色情图片。然而，研究人员估计，Grok 松懈的安全防护措施——允许用户提出“刺激性”的脱衣请求——已经伤害了数万名儿童，且未得到有效的干预。到目前为止，xAI 采取的唯一行动是对该功能收费，诉状称这只会确保 xAI 从所有 Grok 生成的儿童性虐待材料中获利。X 和 xAI 未回应 Ars 的置评请求。
Stability AI yanked into xAI fight
Stability AI 被卷入 xAI 之争
In addition to adding more victims to the complaint, lawyers also added Stability AI as a defendant. According to the amended complaint, Stability AI’s open-weight models were trained on CSAM and allegedly “serve as the basis for third-party ‘nudify’ apps,” which Grok users supposedly rely on to further alter explicit Grok outputs. Like X and xAI, Stability AI is accused of deliberately relaxing safeguards to seize a market by allowing generations of not-safe-for-work (NSFW) content.
除了在诉状中增加更多受害者外，律师还将 Stability AI 列为被告。根据修正后的诉状，Stability AI 的开放权重模型是在儿童性虐待材料上训练的，据称“是第三方‘脱衣’应用程序的基础”，Grok 用户据信依赖这些程序来进一步修改 Grok 生成的露骨内容。与 X 和 xAI 一样，Stability AI 被指控为了抢占市场，通过允许生成不适宜工作场所（NSFW）的内容而故意放宽安全防护措施。