Elon Musk’s Baby Mama Ashley St Clair Fumes as Grok Lets Deepfake Her as a 14-Year-Old
Elon Musk’s baby mama Ashley St Clair is one of the 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. 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.
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St Clair Claims Musk Is Aware of the Issue and It Wouldn’t Be Happening If He Wanted It to Stop
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 CEO Musk appeared to address complaints about the app in a response to a user who asked: 'So what if Grok can put people in bikinis? So can photoshop? So can millions of apps already? This isn’t a new problem, it’s a new tool. If a user does it someone unconsentually, the user should be punished, not the platform.' Musk simply quote-tweeted and added: 'Exactly.' 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.
Grok’s Paywall and Europe’s Safety Pushback
X announced on Friday that only paid subscribers are able to use Grok – meaning their name and payment information must be on file. Grok’s image editing tool responded, 'Image generation and editing are currently limited to paying subscribers. You can subscribe to unlock these features.' The Associated Press later confirmed that the image editing tool remained available to free users on the standalone Grok website and app. Europe’s regulators signaled that this development does not solve the broader concerns about safety. "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. 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'.
Regulators and Public Safety: Global Reactions and What Comes Next
Governments around the world have condemned Grok and opened investigations into how the tool operates and spreads imagery. In Europe, regulators say the core issue remains—paid access or not, illegal and abusive content cannot be tolerated. '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 EU's executive Commission. The Commission had earlier slammed Grok for 'illegal' and 'appalling' behavior. 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'. The image generator Grok Imagine was introduced with a 'spicy mode' for adult content and the feature is accessible to paying subscribers. X has added that only paid subscribers can use Grok, meaning their name and payment details must be on file. The company says it will continue to enforce policies and cooperate with authorities as required.
