Ashley St. Clair, who is in a custody battle with billionaire Elon Musk over their infant son Romulus, unloaded on him Wednesday night following global backlash over X’s AI chatbot reportedly creating sexually explicit images of women and children.
“Images I saw do seem to be illegal, and even them coming out and now trying to place safeguards afterwards seems like an admission that they know that there has been an issue, that it has been creating nonconsensual, sexually explicit images of women and children,” St. Clair said on CNN.
Musk and his social media platform X have come under fire this month after reports of malicious users using the chatbot, Grok, to generate explicit images of women and minors without their consent.
The X CEO released a statement Thursday saying he was “not aware of any naked underage images generated by Grok. Literally zero.”
“Obviously, Grok does not spontaneously generate images, it does so only according to user requests. When asked to generate images, it will refuse to produce anything illegal, as the operating principle for Grok is to obey the laws of any given country or state,” Musk said. “There may be times when adversarial hacking of Grok prompts does something unexpected. If that happens, we fix the bug immediately.”
