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She
filed a claim Wednesday at the High Court in London, citing
misuse of private information under the Data Protection Act.
She is seeking damages and says she wants to create a precedent
that companies can be held liable for the design of their AI
systems.
“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,” she said. “It is like
somebody has digitally stripped me without my consent.”
Asato said she hopes others will join the claim.
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said he supports Asato's
legal action "100%.”
“Jess Asato is absolutely right in the action that she is
taking," Starmer told reporters. “Disgusting images were created
in her particular case by Grok.”
Following an international outcry against deepfake pornography,
Musk’s company said in January it would no longer allow Grok
users to edit images of real people to remove their clothing.
A law passed last year in the U.K. made it illegal to create or
request a non-consensual deepfake image of an adult. But Asato
says xAI should be held accountable for harm that has already
been done.
“Once the damage is done, the damage is done,” she said. “If you
think about any other products, like a car, for example, that
might have been manufactured with a fault, it doesn’t matter if,
you know, the cars get recalled and the faults are fixed and no
more harm is done.”
In January, American writer Ashley St. Clair, mother of Musk’s
son Romulus, filed a lawsuit against xAI in New York. She
alleges that explicit images of her were generated by AI chatbot
Grok, including one in which she was underage.
xAI did not immediately respond to a request for comment on
Thursday.
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