MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Josh Kaul today joined a bipartisan coalition of 35 attorneys general in sending a letter demanding that xAI, the company that owns both the X social media platform and its AI chatbot Grok, take additional action to prevent Grok from generating nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.
Over the past weeks, there have been media reports indicating that Grok has made this content publicly available at the click of a button, driving harassment and exploitation that deprives people of control over how their bodies and likenesses are portrayed.
“Companies that own AI chatbots must ensure that there are adequate protections in place against harmful uses of that technology,” said AG Kaul. “Companies must not allow their AI chatbots to be used to cause harm.”
According to public reporting, users have repeatedly prompted Grok to “undress” women and children and to place them in sexualized contexts without consent. It is alleged that in some cases, Grok has generated images depicting children in minimal clothing or sexual situations. The attorneys general note 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.”
Although xAI has indicated that it 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, durable, and consistently enforced. They are also urging the company to honor requests to remove this content – a requirement that will soon be mandated under federal law when the Take It Down Act becomes enforceable in May 2026.
The attorneys general are demanding that xAI share how it intends to:
- Make sure 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.
AG Kaul is sending this letter alongside the attorneys general of American Samoa, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, and Wyoming.
View this press release on the DOJ website here.
