xAI’s first lawsuit against a user tests who is responsible for what Grok makes
The company says the defendant engineered prompts to defeat Grok’s safeguards. Courts on three continents are being asked whether the safeguards were ever the point.
AI has sued one of its own users, alleging he used Grok to generate child sexual abuse material in breach of the company’s terms of service. It is understood to be the first case an AI company has brought against a user over what its own system produced.
It arrives while xAI is on the other side of the same argument in several courts, among them a London High Court claim testing whether the developer answers for what its users make.
The complaint, 12 pages, was filed in federal court in Texas on Tuesday against Terry Harwood, a South Carolina man arrested earlier this year on charges of sexually exploiting minors.
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