CONTENT WARNING - Elon Musk’s Grok AI Sued For Using Child P*rn In Its Training Data

This can’t be legal

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When I first came across this story, I almost didn’t read it. We have sooooo many awful things happening simultaneously in this country right now, sometimes it feels like you can’t take in anymore.

However, I knew it was important to share this information. Not only because of the importance of the subject matter, but also because I haven’t seen this reporting pop up anywhere else yet.

I’ll post the link to the full article below this snippet, but here’s a few details I saw from ARS Technica, who reported on this yesterday:

xAI has now been accused of training Grok on child sex abuse materials (CSAM), as regulators and courts continue to probe how far the problem goes, and some Grok users have been arrested.

In a complaint filed on Wednesday, a plaintiff known as Jane Doe explained that she was preschool-age in the early 2000s when adult men repeatedly raped her to create CSAM to sell to pedophiles online. Since then, Doe’s images have been hashed by groups like the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) and the Canadian Centre for Child Protection (CCCP).

Now, Doe fears that xAI has not only made it easier to make more violative images of the most distressing time in her life, but also that xAI allegedly has stored the images that Grok generates and uses those outputs to further train Grok.

“Because Grok’s terms treat public X posts and Grok’s own outputs as training data by default, publicly posting an image does not just expose it to viewers, but also feeds [it] directly into the pipeline xAI uses to train and improve its model and thereby generate further images,” Doe’s complaint said.

The lawsuit further noted that while xAI filters out violent content in Grok outputs to exclude it from training data, xAI’s terms notably do not specify if CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), or NSFW material are “excluded categories.”

Read the full article - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08/elon-musks-xai-used-child-porn-to-train-grok-models-lawsuit-says/

I highly recommend you go and check out the full details in that article. I also want to shoutout this account on X, it’s called “GOP Ls”, it was the only place I’ve seen post this info so far, and the account overall is a good follow

My heart is heavy reading this & thinking about Jane Doe. To not only experience what she went through, but to now have to experience it all over again is something I don’t even know how to put into words.

In no sane society would this be legal, and yet, in Trump’s America, these events keep piling up. Just yesterday we saw the news that a federal appeals court judge ruled that the First Amendment protects an individual’s right to privately possess images or videos of child sexual abuse created using AI.

We’ve talked a lot the last couple years about policies we would like to see enacted, & I know that list keeps getting longer and longer, but this has to be added to the list.

AI should never have images like these fed into its systems, or be generating them in anyway.

The fact that we even have to have this conversation is already atrocious enough as it is, but here we are. We’re once again forced to ask our politicians for what should’ve been a given.

Furthermore, Elon Musk should be in prison. Between this, information he siphoned from the Treasury under DOGE, the DOGE cuts themselves, potential election interference, bribing people to vote in Wisconsin last year…

Elon Musk should be behind bars.

I’m disgusted reading this story. I’m sorry to share it with all of you, but this is information that more people need to be aware of.

Here’s your action item - ask your reps & candidates running for office, to campaign on banning AI from taking in these images or generating them at all.

Until next time,

Desmond