An expanded class action lawsuit against xAI now includes some of the most disturbing allegations yet leveled at a major AI company: that its Grok image-generation tools were used to produce thousands of child sexual abuse images, and that the company actively obstructed law enforcement efforts to investigate the material.
The amended complaint, filed in US District Court for the Northern District of California, alleges that a young girl’s stepfather used Grok to generate 7,000 sexually explicit images from a single photograph taken when his stepdaughter was 11 years old. The stepfather took his own life in March after police discovered the material.
The scale of the problem
The lawsuit, originally filed on March 16, 2026, was brought by three Tennessee plaintiffs, including two minors, and seeks nationwide class-action status for what could be thousands of victims.
Reports cited in connection with the case estimate that Grok produced between 1.8 million and 3 million sexualized images in early January 2026 alone. Of those, roughly 23,000 allegedly depicted children.
