OKLAHOMA CITY – Attorney General Gentner Drummond is demanding that xAI, the company that owns both the X social media platform and the AI chatbot Grok, take action to prevent the chatbot from generating nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.
Drummond and a coalition of 34 other state attorneys general wrote a letter calling on xAI to make immediate changes. They wrote, “You are investing tens of billions of dollars into developing powerful AI tools. In doing so, it is your obligation to comply with the law and devote sufficient attention and resources to avoiding the kind of widespread harms and abuses we are seeing now.”
In recent weeks, users have prompted Grok to “undress” women and children and to place them in sexualized contexts without consent. In some cases, Grok has generated images depicting children in minimal clothing or sexual situations. The coalition noted that xAI has marketed Grok’s permissive content generation as a selling point and warn that “the ability to create nonconsensual intimate images appears to be a feature, not a bug.”
“The protection of Oklahoma’s children and citizens from exploitation is non-negotiable. xAI has a responsibility to ensure its technology cannot be weaponized to create child sexual abuse material or nonconsensual intimate images,” Drummond said. “This company must act immediately to close these dangerous loopholes and demonstrate that user safety is more than an afterthought.”
Although xAI has recently implemented limited measures that appear to have reduced the volume of this content, the attorneys general are demanding assurances that these safeguards are effective and enforced. They are also urging the company to honor requests to remove this content, an action that will soon be required under the federal Take It Down Act, which goes into effect in May.
The attorneys general are demanding that xAI share how it intends to:
- Ensure that Grok is no longer capable of producing nonconsensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material.
- Eliminate such content that has already been produced.
- Take action against users who have generated this content.
- Grant X users control over whether their content can be edited by Grok.
Drummond is sending this letter alongside the Attorneys General of North Carolina, Utah, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, American Samoa, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
