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Jane Doe files class-action lawsuit against xAI for training Grok chatbot on child sexual abuse material

A class-action lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California accuses xAI of knowingly training its Grok chatbot on child sexual abuse material (CSAM). The plaintiff, Jane Doe, was a preschool-aged child when she was repeatedly raped for the purpose of creating CSAM, which has circulated online since the early 2000s. The suit alleges that xAI used her well-known hash-values to build Grok’s image and video generating capabilities, effectively creating an instantaneous CSAM generation system. Legal counsel for Jane Doe argues that xAI failed to implement the robust safeguards found in competing AI models, choosing instead to capitalize on the

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