Elon Musk’s baby mama Ashley St. Clair insisted she is “not scared of anyone” — as she weighs filing a revenge porn lawsuit after the billionaire’s AI chatbot Grok started generating sexual deepfake images of her.
The 27-year-old influencer has accused the “predatory” social media platform of repeatedly ignoring her requests to remove the deluge of violating images after they started popping up last week.
“I’m not scared of anyone,” St Clair told The London Times as she declared war on the platform.
“This isn’t about wanting to just punish X, or punish Elon. I want to set an example that nobody should choose being comfortable over doing what’s right.”
Musk’s company has faced intense backlash ever since Grok started churning out creepy, scantily-clad photos of women and minors in response to user prompts.
St. Clair said the disturbing AI-generated images of her started with her in a revealing swimsuit but quickly became more explicit.
“There were suddenly altered photos of me at 14 years old they had found in some dark depths of the internet, ones where I’m undressed, or put me in just a tiny floss bikini,” she said.
She insisted she begged X to remove the AI-generated images — but they allegedly retaliated by stripping her of her blue tick premium membership.
St Clair — who makes money through her membership — took a swipe at President Trump, too, claiming he wouldn’t crackdown because Musk is his “dinner buddy.”
“The day this scandal was breaking, [Musk] was having dinner with the president at Mar-a-Lago,” St. Clair said.
“So I think any president would be reluctant to take serious action against their dinner buddy.”
St. Clair, who revealed early last year that she had given birth to Musk’s 13th child, said she is considering legal action in New York — arguing the images could be viewed as revenge porn under the US Take It Down Act.
She also said that the Tesla founder should apologize.
“There’s been very public sentiment by the owner and his accolades that X is this town square. In no town square can you have public indecency like this — not only would you be arrested, but you would never be allowed 500 feet from a school. But this is somehow OK because it’s a robot doing it?” she told The Times.
“At the very least [Musk] could end all of this by saying, ‘I’m really sorry that my robot made child porn and abuse material of women. And I’m sorry people were hurt by this.’ But no one asks him to answer for any consequences of his very consequential behavior.”
After taking heat from regulators over the images, X responded last month by limiting the photo-editing feature to paid subscribers and warned that users who request illegal content would be punished.
Still, the United Kingdom’s online watchdog on Monday launched a formal investigation in to the Grok chatbot saga amid concerns the images amounted to child porn.
Meanwhile, X is also facing a separate inquiry by the European Commission as officials examine whether the company has violated the EU’s strict online safety rules.
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