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

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Source: Wired

Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence firm, xAI, is requesting the public identification of four people who allegedly had deepfake sexualized images created of them using Grok—including one apparently targeted with sexualized deepfake images of them as a child, according to recently filed court documents.

On May 29, the four main claimants in a federal class-action lawsuit—currently identified as South Carolina Doe, South Carolina Roe, New Jersey Doe, and Ohio Doe—described in affidavits the emotional distress they had suffered after the alleged deepfakes were created earlier this year. The four fear further online harassment and doxing if they are forced to use their real names in the lawsuit against xAI, the documents allege.

“Having stripped them of their clothes, xAI now seeks to strip Plaintiffs of their pseudonyms in an obvious effort to intimidate Plaintiffs into dropping the litigation by compounding the same harms that they seek to remedy,” Sophia Rios, a lawyer representing the individuals for legal firm Berger Montague, wrote in a recent filing. “Asking this Court to reverse itself, xAI suggests that the abuse it has perpetuated is no big deal.” Rios tells WIRED she is unable to comment beyond what is written in the filings.

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Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who has specialized in tackling digital abuse, says civil cases where people are ordered to sue using their real names can lead to lawsuits being dropped, creating an “unacceptable and unjust” situation. “Forcing plaintiffs in privacy suits to sue in their names does so little for judicial transparency and so much to deter litigation,” Citron tells WIRED.

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

[RockRaven]

1. The people who work with/for Edolf Muskler are such fucking scumbags that

it really defies any adequate verbal description.

[SergeStorms]

2. I've figured out why Eloon uses "X" in most of his businesses.

It's the closest letter in the English alphabet to a Nazi symbol.

What a despicable turd. 🤨

[2naSalit]

3. I think you're correct...

I also think that he came up with 'doge' ... backwards it's 'egod' which would possibly be his little 'joke' as he sees things in his drug addled brain.

He likes to play with letters like that so it could well be his little ego trying to have a secret little funny that he keeps all to himself which makes for a self aggrandizing situation that only he is supposed to know about.