Ashley St.Clair
Influencer Ashley St.Clair is the mother of the 13th of Elon Musk’s 14 (known) children
Ashley St.Clair, mother of Elon Musk’s 13th child, is suing the businessman’s artificial intelligence company, alleging that Grok allowed users to generate ‘deepfake’ images of sexual exploitation from photographs of her – including when she was a minor.
A influencer Ashley St. Clair27, alleges in a lawsuit filed on Thursday in New York against xAI that Grok is generating false sexual images, which include a photo of her dressed up, at 14 years oldwhich was changed to show in bikini.
The conservative influencer, of Jewish religion, gave as examples other images of manipulated content that show her as an adult, in sexualized poses and using a bikini with swastikas.
Asked about the lawsuit and St. Clair’s allegations, xAI just saidin a written response to the Associated Press: “Traditional media lies“.
Lawyers for xAI, which developed the AI tool Grok, made available to users of the social network X – also owned by Elon Musk – have not responded to the lawsuit so far.
St. Clair says that reported deepfakes to X in 2024, after they began to appear, and asked that they be removed because they caused him humiliation and emotional suffering. According to the influencer, X responded first because the images did not violate platform policies. He then promised not to allow images of St. Clair to be used or altered without his consent.
St. Clair says the social network then retaliated by removing the paid subscription of X and the verification sealnot allowing you to monetize your account, which has one million followers.
“I have suffered and continue to suffer severe pain and mental anguish as a result of xAI’s role in creating and distributing these digitally altered images of me,” says the influencer.
“I’m humiliated and I feel like this nightmare will never end as long as Grok continues to generate these images of me,” highlights St. Clair, in a document attached to the process. The influencer adds that lives in fear of people que bed.
The brood of the Apocalypse
Ashley St. Clair, who is mother of Romulus, Elon Musk’s 13th child, aged 16 monthslives in New York, where he filed the lawsuit, in which he requests compensation for an undisclosed amount, as well as court orders immediately preventing the xAI of allowing the production of more of your deepfakes.
In April last year, St.Clair told the Wall Street Journal that the tech billionaire, who has 14 children, to prepare for the apocalypse.
Clair, known for her right-wing political views on social media, showed the WSJ texts from Musk that he received when he was pregnant, in which the billionaire suggested that they arrange other women to have their children faster.
“To reach legion level before the apocalypsewe have to use substitutes”, says one of the messages. The Tesla CEO refers to his numerous litterof four women, as your “legion”an expression from the time of the Roman Empire.
Sources close to the tech entrepreneur told the WSJ that the real number of Musk’s children is “much higher than what is publicly known“.
The billionaire wrote in September 2024 on X that he considers it essential that we become multiplanetary “to ensure long-term survival of humanity and all life as we know it.”
Musk, who defends “pronatalist” beliefssays that human civilization is, sees with concern the high birth rates in third world countries, and is part of the ““ club.
X’s counterattack
On Thursday, xAI presented a countersuit against St. Clair in the state of Texas, claiming that the influencer violated the terms of the contract xAI user profile, which requires legal actions against the company to be filed in Texas.
In a statement, St. Clair’s attorney, Carrie Goldbergclassified the counter-action as a shocking and unprecedented maneuver.
“But, frankly,any jurisdiction will recognize the substance of the allegations of Ms. St. Clair, who, by fabricating sexually explicit and non-consensual images of girls and women, xAI is a public problem and a product that is not reasonably safe.”
On Wednesday, X announced measures for reais, in countries where such practice is illegalfollowing an international movement of indignation against Grok for the possibility that Musk’s AI offers to modify images, which has been used to publish deepfakes of women and teenagers in sexualized poses.
“We implemented technological measures to prevent the Grok account from allowing editing of iimages of real people in revealing clotheslike bikinis”, indicated Elon Musk’s social network in a message published on the platform.
Despite these measures, several users have reported in recent days that they continue to be able to generate this type of imageswhich have already taken some countries, such as France, United KingdomIndonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines, to , and formal protests from the European Union.
Last week, an analysis conducted by the non-governmental organization AI Forensics more than 20 thousand images generated by Grok revealed that more than half portrayed individuals with little clothinga, 81% of whom were women and 2% of whom appeared to be underage.
The California Attorney General announced on Wednesday the opening of an investigation into xAI.
