Elon Musk's baby mama Ashley St Clair is one of many furious with the X CEO over Grok allowing users to create deepfake porn of her as a 14-year-old.
The 31-year-old, who is in the process of fighting the Tesla CEO for custody of their nearly one-year-old son Romulus, is speaking out after friends alerted her to the vile, user-generated images.
'I found that Grok was undressing me and it had taken a fully clothed photo of me, someone asked to put in a bikini and it did,' she told Inside Edition, adding that one of the pictures was of her at the age of just 14.
'These are real images of me that they then took and had them undress me. They found a photo of me when I was 14 years old and had it undress 14-year-old me and put me in a bikini,' she added.
St Clair, who said she was 'disgusted and violated,' reached out to Grok to try and get the disgusting images removed, she had mixed results.
'Some of them they did, some of them it took 36 hours and some of them are still up,' she said.
St Clair even claimed on her own X account Thursday that she received a terms of service violation for complaining about it.
'They removed my blue check faster than they removed the mechahitler kiddie porn + sexual abuse content grok made (it's still up, in case you were wondering how the 'pay $8 to abuse women and children' approach was working,' she wrote.
Elon Musk's baby mama Ashley St Clair (pictured) is one of many furious with the X CEO over Grok allowing users to create deepfake porn of her as a 14-year-old
The 31-year-old, who is in the process of fighting the Tesla CEO (pictured) for custody of their nearly one-year-old son Romulus, is speaking out after friends alerted her to the vile, user-generated images
St Clair claims that Musk is 'aware of the issue' and that 'it wouldn't be happening' if he wanted it to stop.
When asked why he hasn't had the child pornography stopped, she said: 'That's a great question that people should ask him.'
On her account, she continued to slam the world's richest man, writing that 'I'm starting to think the $44billion' Musk spent to purchase X 'wasn't for free speech.'
X did not respond to The Daily Mail's request for comment but did announce Friday that only paid subscribers are able to use Grok - meaning their name and payment information must be on file.
An internet safety organization said its analysts have confirmed the existence of 'criminal imagery of children aged between 11 and 13 which appears to have been created using the (Grok) tool'.
The chatbot, which is accessed through Musk's social media platform X, has in the past few weeks been granting a wave of what researchers say are malicious user requests to modify images, including putting women in bikinis or in sexually explicit positions.
Researchers have warned that in a few cases, some images appeared to depict children. Governments around the world have condemned the platform and opened investigations.
On Friday, Grok responded to image altering requests with the message: 'Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe to unlock these features.'
'I found that Grok was undressing me and it had taken a fully clothed photo of me, someone asked to put in a bikini,' St Clair said, adding that one of the pictures was of her at the age of just 14
While subscriber numbers for Grok aren't publicly available, there was a noticeable decline Friday in the number of explicit deepfakes that Grok is now generating compared with just days earlier.
Grok was still granting image requests but only from X users with blue checkmarks given to premium subscriber who pay $8 a month for features including higher usage limits for the chatbot.
The Associated Press on Friday confirmed Friday afternoon that the image editing tool was still available to free users on the standalone Grok website and app.
The restrictions for users save for paying subscribers did not appear to change the opinions of leaders or regulators in Europe.
'This doesn't change our fundamental issue. Paid subscription or non-paid subscription, we don't want to see such images. It's as simple as that,' said Thomas Regnier, a spokesman for the European Union's executive Commission.
The Commission had earlier slammed Grok for 'illegal' and 'appalling' behavior.
St Clair claims that Musk is 'aware of the issue' and that 'it wouldn't be happening' if he wanted it to stop.
Grok is free to use for X users, who can ask it questions on the social media platform. They can either tag it in posts they've directly created or in replies to posts from other users.
The feature launched in 2023. Last summer the company added an image generator feature, Grok Imagine, that included a so-called 'spicy mode' that can generate adult content.
The problem is amplified both because Musk pitches his chatbot as an edgier alternative to rivals with more safeguards, and because Grok's images are publicly visible, and can therefore be easily spread.
Musk has previously insisted 'anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they uploaded illegal content'.
X has said it takes action against illegal content, including child sexual abuse material, 'by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary'.