A school portrait. A family photo. A selfie posted for friends. These ordinary moments are being fed into AI tools and turned into sexual images of women and children who never agreed to any of it. Some victims were as young as 11. And according to a growing number of lawsuits, the companies behind these tools knew it could happen and didn’t do nearly enough to stop it.
That should make every one of us furious. Here’s what’s happening, what the lawsuits allege, and what you can do.
But first, the most important thing: If someone made a sexual deepfake of you or your child, it is not your fault, and you are not alone.
What’s Going On
In late 2025 and early 2026, users of Grok, the AI chatbot built into X, began prompting it to strip clothing from real photos of women and children. Regulators around the world opened investigations, and Grok’s maker, xAI (now SpaceXAI), said in January it had blocked edits of real people into revealing clothing. For many, that came too late.
- A South Carolina woman filed a proposed nationwide class action for everyone Grok depicted in a sexualized image without consent, Bloomberg Government reported. Her complaint alleges xAI, unlike Google and OpenAI, didn’t filter sexual and abusive content out of Grok’s training data. Writer Ashley St. Clair also sued, according to NBC News, alleging the images kept coming after she asked xAI to stop.
- In March 2026, three Tennessee plaintiffs, two of them still minors, sued in federal court in California, Reuters reported. Their lawyers say the girls’ school and family photos were turned into child sexual abuse material (CSAM).
- In July 2026, more women joined that suit, and Stability AI was added as a defendant, NPR reported. One plaintiff alleges her stepfather used a single photo of her at about age 11 to generate thousands of sexual images, and that the company sent only one limited report to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC).
These allegations have not been proven in court. Stability AI told NPR that safety is a top priority; SpaceXAI did not respond to NPR’s request for comment.
Why This Matters for Women and Kids
A deepfake may be fake, but the harm is real: the shock, the fear of who has seen it, the exhaustion of reporting images that keep reappearing.
Posting a photo is not consent. Sharing a school picture, smiling in a family photo, or simply existing online does not invite abuse. The responsibility belongs to the person who made the images and, these lawsuits argue, to the companies that made it fast and easy.
For children, the stakes are even higher. These images are illegal, however they’re made, and the person responsible is often someone the child knows. If that’s your family’s story, please know many other families are going through this too.
What You Can Do Right Now
Where We Stand
We are actively following these cases.
If you or your child was depicted in a sexual deepfake made with an AI tool, contact us. It’s confidential, and you can pursue a lawsuit anonymously. We work with attorneys who take these cases on contingency, which means they’re paid only if they achieve a positive result in your case. We charge you nothing.
You are not alone, and you deserve to be heard.
Sources: NBC News, Reuters, NPR, Bloomberg Government.
