HARRISBURG, PA — Pennsylvania Attorney General Dave Sunday is co-leading a bipartisan coalition of 35 attorneys general pressing xAI to immediately tighten controls on its AI chatbot Grok, warning the tool has enabled the creation and spread of nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.
In a letter sent Friday, the attorneys general accuse the company — which owns both the X social media platform and Grok — of allowing harmful content to be generated and shared with ease, exposing victims to harassment, exploitation, and lasting personal damage.
The coalition said users repeatedly prompted Grok to “undress” women and children and place them in sexualized contexts without consent. In some cases, the chatbot generated images depicting children in minimal clothing or sexual situations, content that violates the platform’s own terms of service and potentially state and federal law.
Sunday said the harm caused by such images is profound and predictable.
The anguish, embarrassment, and devastation resulting from being the subject of a nonconsensual image creation or alteration online cannot be overstated, Sunday said, adding that the coalition is acting both for those already harmed and for those who may be targeted in the future.
The attorneys general noted that xAI has promoted Grok’s permissive content generation as a selling point and warned that the ability to create nonconsensual intimate images appears to be a feature, not a bug.
Although xAI has recently implemented limited safeguards that appear to have reduced the volume of objectionable content, the coalition said those measures fall short. The attorneys general are demanding assurances that protections are effective, durable, and consistently enforced, and that victims’ requests for removal are honored.
Those removal obligations will soon carry legal force under the federal Take It Down Act, which is scheduled to become enforceable in May 2026.
As chief law enforcement officers, the attorneys general said Grok’s outputs may violate civil and criminal laws governing nonconsensual intimate images and the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material, while also undermining legal remedies available to victims.
The letter demands that xAI detail how it will ensure Grok can no longer produce such content, eliminate material already generated, take action against users who created it, and give X users control over whether their content can be edited by the AI.
The time to ensure people are protected from powerful tools like generative AI isn’t after harm has been caused, Sunday said, arguing that guardrails should have been in place before the technology was released.
Sunday sent the letter alongside attorneys general from North Carolina, Utah, Connecticut, American Samoa, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, the Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, the Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
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