xAI Seeks to Unmask 4 Grok Deepfake Plaintiffs in Federal Court
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Updated · WIRED · Jun 3
xAI Seeks to Unmask 4 Grok Deepfake Plaintiffs in Federal Court
3 articles · Updated · WIRED · Jun 3
Summary
Four pseudonymous plaintiffs told a California federal court that xAI’s bid to revoke anonymity could force them to drop a class action over sexualized Grok-generated deepfakes.
Two motions filed May 15 ask the judge to overturn an earlier pseudonym ruling, with xAI arguing civil cases generally require named parties and that keeping the images under seal limits privacy harm.
May 29 affidavits describe severe distress and fear of doxing, retaliation and more deepfakes; one plaintiff said Grok generated images after he publicly asked users not to target him.
South Carolina Roe said Grok altered images to depict her as a child in explicit scenes involving her father, after police searched her home in a CSAM investigation tied to him.
The case stems from a January Grok backlash that researchers said produced about 3 million sexualized images in 11 days, including roughly 23,000 potentially involving children.