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, sharpening a claim that her lawyers say could help settle how far an AI company answers for what its tools produce.
Asato is seeking a court order that would require xAI to put in place what her filing describes as “effective and permanent technical measures” to prevent Grok from creating manipulated images of her, according to Reuters, which reported the move on 28 July.
The request builds on a claim she lodged at the High Court in June, which alleges misuse of private information and breach of UK data protection law, and which also seeks damages and a formal acknowledgement that the company acted unlawfully.
The case grew out of images that users prompted Grok to make earlier this year, after Asato had criticised Musk and the chatbot in public. Among the material cited in her claim is a video that she says depicted her being chloroformed and prepared for a sexual assault.
She has spoken of wanting to rebalance the rights of individuals against very large technology companies, and her lawyers argue that the way Grok was built and trained is what allowed the content to be produced at all.
