These pictures and videos should have never been able to be created in the first place and that's the essence of my case, which is that the tools that are being designed by AI developers like xAI are being designed without the right safeguard to protect women and children.
Explaining the core issue of her legal case.
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I am filing a legal claim and taking legal action against xAI, which is Elon Musk's company, which owns and designed Grok, an AI chatbot tool, because people used Grok earlier this year to take images of me from the internet without my…
We want to show that tech companies cannot act without impunity, they need to build safeguards into their products so that people's images cannot by used or manipulated by AI, to sexualise them without their consent.
Nobody would be able to walk up to me in the street and strip me and put me in a bikini, and I don’t see why anybody should be able to do that to me online, because the feeling, while it is not quite the same, is very similar.
I hope my case will also open up a debate about 'what consent means in the online space'.
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