28 August 2026
Lawsuit claims Grok trained on child abuse images
First reported
Ars Technica ran this on , a day before the next source picked it up.
- A woman identified as Jane Doe filed a lawsuit alleging that images of her childhood sexual abuse were included in the dataset used to train Grok, xAI's image generator.
- The complaint claims Grok generates new abuse images based on her real photos and that xAI then uses those generated images to further train the model, creating a cycle.
How it was covered
Reported by Ars Technica