Bloomberg Feature: Thousands of Minors Seek to Hold xAI Liable for Grok's Sexualized Childhood Deepfakes

Bloomberg's Nov 12 feature documents a growing roster of young victims — plaintiffs in Wisconsin, Tennessee and California — trying to hold xAI legally accountable for Grok generating sexualized images of them as minors from photos pulled off social media and school sites. Court filings cite roughly 3 million sexualized images produced between December 2025 and January 2026, at least 23,000 depicting children, and argue xAI's guardrails were trivially bypassed before the January 2026 cutover that disabled non-consensual sexualized imagery of real people.