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Jess Asato: “I am filing a legal claim and taking legal action against xAI, which is Elon Musk's company, which owns and designed…”

On the recordJune 4, 2026
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 consent and turn them into fake sexualised misogynistic pictures and videos, which I found pretty humiliating and violating.
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Jess Asato
Labour Party

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Discussing her legal action against xAI for AI-generated images.

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It is like somebody has digitally stripped me without my consent.

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I feel like this is almost a watershed moment. We have known that for many years women have faced this growing tsunami of online misogyny... that Grok managed to create on a mass level.

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