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Harwood, No. 7:26-cv-00078, in the Northern District of Texas (Wichita Falls Division, Judge Reed O'Connor) on 14 July 2026 as a diversity breach-of-contract action; summons was served on 28 July 2026.", "causal_attribution": "Filing facts are established directly by the docket and the complaint." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Paragraph 26 (accounts created 8 and 10 December 2025); paragraph 27 ('at least as early as December 8, 2025 and at least as late as February 18, 2026... uploaded non-sexual images of numerous adults and minors'); paragraph 28 ('repeatedly submitted further prompts, with alterations, in an effort to circumvent Grok's... images produced by Defendant involved the likeness of minor children'); paragraphs 29-33 (the 10-or-11-year-old example and Grok's refusal).", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'Grok refused to follow his prompts on \"numerous occasions\" but... he repeatedly submitted edited prompts to circumvent the AI's safeguards... uploaded the photo of a fully dressed girl around 10 to 11 years old'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" }, { "locator": "'alleges Harwood created multiple xAI accounts and entered \"misleading prompts\" to create explicit deepfakes of both minors and adults'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" } ], "assertion": "The complaint alleges that, between at least 8 December 2025 and 18 February 2026, Harwood used two xAI accounts to upload non-sexual images of numerous adults and minors and prompted Grok to alter them into sexualized images and videos; that Grok refused on numerous occasions and he resubmitted altered prompts to circumvent its safeguards; and that some images produced involved the likeness of minor children, including an example where he uploaded a photograph of a fully clothed girl of about 10 or 11 and asked Grok to remove her clothing.", "causal_attribution": "These are the plaintiff's allegations, pleaded upon information and belief from xAI's review of the accounts; no court has ruled on them and the defendant's response is not on the docket." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Paragraph 6: 'Plaintiff has suspended 52,222 accounts and made 73,604 reports to NCMEC in 2026, resulting in (at least) 244 arrests'; paragraph 34: 'Plaintiff is actively providing its full' cooperation (the sentence continues across the page break to page 10).", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'xAI claims that it \"has suspended 52,222 accounts and made 73,604 reports to (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children) in 2026, resulting in (at least) 244 arrests.\"'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" } ], "assertion": "The complaint states that xAI suspended 52,222 accounts and made 73,604 reports to NCMEC in 2026, resulting in at least 244 arrests, and that it is cooperating with the criminal proceedings against Harwood.", "causal_attribution": "xAI's own figures as stated in its pleading; not independently verified." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "'Harwood was arrested on February 26, 2026. He is charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, second degree (§16-15-405)... and five counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, third degree (§16-15-410)'; 'Investigators received CyberTipline reports from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which led them to Harwood'; 'all defendants are presumed innocent'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" }, { "locator": "Paragraph 34 quotes the 9 March 2026 announcement and lists Laurens County case numbers 2026A3010100169-71 and 2026A3010100174-78.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'The office of South Carolina's Attorney General announced Harwood's arrest on March 9'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" } ], "assertion": "South Carolina's Internet Crimes Against Children task force arrested Harwood on 26 February 2026 after NCMEC CyberTipline reports; the state attorney general announced on 9 March 2026 that he was charged with three counts of sexual exploitation of a minor, second degree, and five counts, third degree, each a felony punishable by up to ten years, and that investigators state he possessed and distributed child sexual abuse material; the release stresses the presumption of innocence and does not mention AI.", "causal_attribution": "The charges are established by the attorney general's release; whether the charged material was Grok-generated is not stated by the release." }, { "id": "c5", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Paragraph 10 and the prayer for relief (B: declare breach; C: indemnify; D: damages; injunction against new accounts or further use).", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "'xAI is now asking asking [sic] the court for an unspecified amount of monetary damages. It wants the court to order the defendant to pay for the expenses it incurs to defend itself in any legal action that might be filed by his victims.'", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" } ], "assertion": "xAI seeks a declaration of breach, indemnification for the costs of defending any claims by the people depicted, damages and a permanent ban from Grok.", "causal_attribution": "Relief sought as pleaded." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "real adults and children depicted in Grok-altered sexualized images and videos, per the provider's own complaint", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.423147/gov.uscourts.txnd.423147.1.0_3.pdf", "kind": "court_filing", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16 (pdftotext, 12 pages; paragraphs 6-10, 12, 26-34, 41-47 and the prayer for relief).", "independence_group": "court-record" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/73616819/xai-llc-v-harwood/", "kind": "court_docket", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16: six docket entries (complaint 14 July, summons issued 15 July, summons returned executed 31 July, served 28 July 2026).", "independence_group": "court-record" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://www.scag.gov/about-the-office/news/four-upstate-men-arrested-on-child-sexual-abuse-material-charges/", "kind": "official_statement", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16 (undated page; the complaint dates the release 9 March 2026).", "independence_group": "scag" }, { "id": "s4", "url": "https://www.engadget.com/2216382/xai-sues-grok-user-generating-nonconsensual-sexualized-deepfakes/", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-07-16); reports the complaint and the arrest release.", "independence_group": "engadget" }, { "id": "s5", "url": "https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/15/business/xai-sues-user-alleged-child-sexual-abuse-materials", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-07-16T02:05Z, i.e. 15 July US time); reports the complaint; CNN reached out to his criminal-defense attorney.", "independence_group": "cnn" }, { "id": "s6", "url": "https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-xai-sues-grok-user-deepfakes", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in English on 2026-09-16 (datePublished 2026-07-17); reports the complaint via Reuters and places it among the suits xAI faces.", "independence_group": "futurism" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "privacy", "justice" ], "unknowns": [ "No depicted person is identified, counted or located in any inspected source; whether any has been notified or has made a claim is unknown.", "Whether the material underlying the South Carolina charges is the Grok-generated material described in xAI's complaint is not stated by the attorney general's release.", "The defendant's answer or other response in the civil case is not on the docket as inspected (last entry 31 July 2026); the status of the criminal case after March 2026 was not researched.", "The complaint's account of Grok's refusals and of which prompts succeeded rests on xAI's internal review and is not independently verified." ], "geography": { "basis": "Event: the defendant's account use from Gray Court, South Carolina (complaint paragraph 12; attorney general's release); the depicted people's locations are not reported, so affected-person countries are unknown. 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The people depicted are not identified in any inspected source; the complaint's allegations remain allegations and the criminal charges are pending.", "incidentDate": "2025-12-08", "incidentEndDate": "2026-02-18", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "unknown", "reportedDate": "2026-07-15", "aiSystem": "Grok (xAI image generation and editing)", "aiCompany": "xAI (X.AI LLC, the plaintiff; described in later coverage as SpaceXAI)", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "verified", "harmCategories": [], "harmOutcomes": [ "exploitation_or_abuse" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "Per xAI's complaint, numerous real adults and minors had non-sexual photographs of themselves altered by Grok into sexualized images and videos at the defendant's prompting; the complaint anticipates claims by those victims. No depicted person is identified in the inspected sources.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "alleged", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 0, "affectedCountStatus": "unquantified", "affectedCountEvidence": "The complaint refers to 'numerous adults and minors' without a count and gives one example; the attorney general's release counts charges, not victims. No reliable count of depicted people exists.", "victimAgeRange": "minor", "jurisdiction": "US", "platformType": "chatbot", "outcomeType": "lawsuit_filed", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.txnd.423147/gov.uscourts.txnd.423147.1.0_3.pdf", "primarySourceLabel": "Complaint, X.AI LLC v. Harwood, No. 7:26-cv-00078 (N.D. 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Clark) against AI/Robotics Venture Strategy 3 Ltd. d/b/a ClothOff (BVI), Alaiksandr Babichau and Dasha Babicheva (of Minsk), and Telegram entities as nominal defendants.", "causal_attribution": "Established directly by the filing and the docket." }, { "id": "c2", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Complaint ¶¶33-40 (the discovery date, the Snapchat-group circulation, the age-14 source photo, the classmate uploader).", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" }, { "locator": "TechCrunch's complaint-based account, including that local authorities declined prosecution.", "relation": "context", "source_id": "s6" } ], "assertion": "On 20 October 2023 Doe, then 15, learned that ClothOff-generated CSAM of her and 'several other girls in her class' was circulating in a Snapchat group; the source was an ordinary photo of her at age 14 from Instagram, uploaded by a minor classmate; local authorities declined to prosecute.", "causal_attribution": "Established as the complaint's contents; they remain the plaintiff's allegations. The prosecution decline is TechCrunch's reading of the complaint, attributed." }, { "id": "c3", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Complaint ¶¶1-6, 54-55 (visitors, image rate, watermark, three clicks), ¶¶220-255 (affiliated services), ¶¶695-697 (bots, API).", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s1" } ], "assertion": "The complaint describes ClothOff as a purpose-built 'undress' service producing hyper-realistic output 'indistinguishable from real photographs' without a watermark in three clicks, with at least 27 million visitors and about 200,000 images per day, at least ten affiliated services, Telegram bots and an API.", "causal_attribution": "Established as the complaint's contents. These are the plaintiff's allegations, not independently audited figures; the historical record's '3 million users' and '15+ affiliated services' were corrected to the complaint's figures." }, { "id": "c4", "status": "corroborated", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Guardian passages naming the operators, the fake CEO, Texture Oasis and GGSel/GG Technology; the Almendralejo and Westfield links; '>4m monthly visits'.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s4" }, { "locator": "Bellingcat's network map and payment-laundering account (G2A/Skinsback/Steam/PayPal/Stripe/Patreon), 23 Feb 2024.", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s5" } ], "assertion": "Reporting before the suit identified the operators: the Guardian's Black Box investigation named Babichau and Babicheva (Minsk), a fake AI 'CEO', the Texture Oasis payment front and GGSel/GG Technology links, and tied ClothOff to the Almendralejo (Spain) and Westfield NJ school incidents; Bellingcat's independent investigation mapped the same network and its payment laundering six days earlier.", "causal_attribution": "Two independent investigations six days apart; they overlap on GG Technology/Bondarenko but were conducted separately. The complaint itself relies on the Guardian's reporting (per Yale)." }, { "id": "c5", "status": "documented", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Docket entries D.E. 12-20 (24 Jun notice; 29 Jun vacatur; 8 Jul order; 9 Jul motion and exhibits; 3 Aug setting).", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s2" } ], "assertion": "The 2026 docket shows continuing service efforts: a Rule 4(m) call for dismissal on 24 June 2026 (service not effected; the pseudonym motion administratively terminated), vacated by Judge Salas on 29 June after the plaintiff showed ongoing foreign-service efforts; an order allowing service by email on 8 July; and a motion for service by publication or email on 9 July, set for decision on 3 August 2026.", "causal_attribution": "Established by the docket through the RECAP mirror's end (15 July 2026); nothing later is visible in this review." }, { "id": "c6", "status": "disputed", "evidence": [ { "locator": "Yale's account of the removal letters and platform responses (X, Discord, Google, YouTube).", "relation": "supports", "source_id": "s3" }, { "locator": "TechCrunch: the service was 'still available... through a Telegram bot' (12 Jan 2026).", "relation": "contradicts", "source_id": "s6" } ], "assertion": "X, Discord, Google and YouTube removed ClothOff following the clinics' summer 2025 letters (Yale); the historical claim that Telegram removed the ClothOff bot in October 2025 is contradicted by TechCrunch, which found the service still available through a Telegram bot on 12 January 2026.", "causal_attribution": "The platform removals are a party account (Yale); the Telegram-bot status is contradicted by later reporting and recorded as disputed rather than resolved either way." } ], "effects": [ { "label": "AI-generated CSAM of a minor circulated in her school community; federal suit against the platform", "claim_id": "c2", "direction": "negative" } ], "sources": [ { "id": "s1", "url": "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.585002/gov.uscourts.njd.585002.1.0.pdf", "kind": "court_filing", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Complaint PDF (45 pages) fetched and read via pdftotext on 2026-09-15. The filing establishes its own contents; its allegations remain allegations.", "independence_group": "court-record" }, { "id": "s2", "url": "https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/71665449/doe-v-airobotics-venture-strategy-3-ltd/", "kind": "court_docket", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Docket reviewed on 2026-09-15 through D.E. 20 (mirror ends 15 July 2026).", "independence_group": "court-record" }, { "id": "s3", "url": "https://law.yale.edu/yls-today/news/clinics-file-suit-against-website-generates-nonconsensual-nude-images", "kind": "party_announcement", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read on 2026-09-15. Party source (the clinics bringing the suit); used for the clinics' role and the X/Discord/Google/YouTube removal letters.", "independence_group": "yale" }, { "id": "s4", "url": "https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/29/clothoff-deepfake-ai-pornography-app-names-linked-revealed", "kind": "news_investigation", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in full on 2026-09-15 (29 Feb 2024, Black Box).", "independence_group": "guardian" }, { "id": "s5", "url": "https://bellingcat.com/news/2024/02/23/behind-a-secretive-global-network-of-non-consensual-deepfake-pornography/", "kind": "news_investigation", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in full on 2026-09-15 (23 Feb 2024).", "independence_group": "bellingcat" }, { "id": "s6", "url": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/12/a-new-jersey-lawsuit-shows-how-hard-it-is-to-fight-deepfake-porn/", "kind": "news_report", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read in full on 2026-09-15 (12 Jan 2026); own interview with co-lead counsel.", "independence_group": "techcrunch" }, { "id": "s7", "url": "https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/10/teen-haunted-by-fake-nudes-sues-to-kill-nudify-app-block-telegram-bots/", "kind": "news_relaying_wsj", "access": "read", "language": "en", "translation_note": "Read on 2026-09-15 (17 Oct 2025). Relays the WSJ report; adds Telegram's ToS statement and the separate suit against the boy.", "independence_group": "wsj" }, { "id": "s8", "url": "https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/teen-sues-maker-of-fake-nude-software-b88f316f", "kind": "news_report", "access": "unavailable", "language": null, "translation_note": "HTTP 401 paywall on 2026-09-15; not read; language not established.", "independence_group": "wsj" }, { "id": "s9", "url": "https://www.nj.com/news/2026/01/this-nj-girl-was-a-victim-of-deepfake-porn-shes-suing-the-app-that-generated-it.html", "kind": "news_report", "access": "unavailable", "language": null, "translation_note": "HTTP 403 on 2026-09-15; not read; language not established.", "independence_group": "nj-com" } ], "version": 1, "ai_roles": [ "others_use" ], "contexts": [ "education", "justice" ], "unknowns": [ "The service-by-publication/email motion's outcome after 3 August 2026 is not visible in the RECAP mirror (ends 15 July 2026); whether default judgment or dismissal followed is unknown.", "Whether Doe's school is the Westfield High School of the earlier New Jersey incident is unverified: the complaint names only 'a high school in Union County', and the historical record's 'separate victim from Francesca Mani' is not established by any inspected document. The school is deliberately not inferred or named.", "The current availability of the generated images is unknown.", "The platforms' and registries' responses to the requested injunctions are not yet reported.", "The complaint's platform figures (visitors, image rate) are the plaintiff's allegations and are not independently audited." ], "geography": { "basis": "Event: a high school in Union County, New Jersey (complaint; the school is not named and is not inferred). Affected person: the New Jersey minor. Court: U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey. The defendants' BVI/Belarus connections are recorded without becoming event or court countries.", "court_countries": [ "US" ], "event_countries": [ "US" ], "affected_person_countries": [ "US" ] }, "publication": { "basis": "Restored under the 2026-09-15 charter as a harmful-artifact case (depicted_or_impersonated) with the federal complaint as the primary record. The plaintiff is a minor protected by court-ordered pseudonymity; no school, classmate or image description beyond the minimum case facts is reproduced. The complaint's contents are recorded as allegations; operator identity rests on two independent investigations.", "reviewed_on": "2026-09-15" }, "ai_involvement": { "basis": "The complaint alleges the images of Doe were generated by ClothOff from her photo; the platform's purpose-built undress function is documented by the complaint and the Guardian/Bellingcat investigations. The allegations remain allegations against the unserved defendants; the platform's existence, function and operator identity are independently investigated.", "status": "supported" }, "person_relations": [ "depicted_or_impersonated" ] }, "name": "Doe v. ClothOff (D.N.J.): a New Jersey minor sues the AI 'undressing' platform over generated CSAM", "summary": "On 16 October 2025, Jane Doe, a New Jersey minor suing through her parents, filed a federal complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey (2:25-cv-16671-ES-JBC) against the operators of ClothOff, an AI 'undressing' service, after ClothOff-generated sexual images of her — created from an ordinary photo of her at 14 — circulated in a Snapchat group when she was 15. The complaint, brought by Yale Law School clinics, alleges the platform was purpose-built to produce hyper-realistic non-consensual intimate imagery and names AI/Robotics Venture Strategy 3 Ltd. (British Virgin Islands), Alaiksandr Babichau and Dasha Babicheva (Minsk), and Telegram as nominal defendant. As of mid-July 2026 the docket shows a continuing effort to serve the foreign defendants by email or publication.", "incidentDate": "2023-10-20", "incidentEndDate": "2025-10-16", "incidentKind": "bounded_series", "incidentDatePrecision": "range", "exposurePattern": "repeated_interactions", "reportedDate": "2025-10-16", "aiSystem": "ClothOff (AI undressing service)", "aiCompany": "AI/Robotics Venture Strategy 3 Ltd. d/b/a ClothOff (BVI); operators identified in reporting as based in Minsk, Belarus", "severity": "high", "verificationStatus": "verified", "harmCategories": [ "minor_exploitation", "third_party_harm_facilitation" ], "harmOutcomes": [ "psychological_distress", "reputational_harm" ], "harmOutcomeSummary": "ClothOff-generated CSAM of a 15-year-old circulated in her school's Snapchat group from an ordinary childhood photo — persistent image-based abuse of a minor that local authorities declined to prosecute, leaving the federal suit as the remedy path.", "frameworkFacets": [], "causationStatus": "established", "participantUsersAffectedMin": 0, "otherPeopleHarmedMin": 1, "affectedCountStatus": "partial", "affectedCountEvidence": "One counted depicted person: Jane Doe (complaint). The complaint's 'several other girls in her class' are depicted but unnamed and unquantified, so the total is counted-plus-unquantified (partial). Platform visitor and image-rate figures (27 million visitors, ~200,000 images/day) are not people and are never counted.", "victimAgeRange": "minor", "jurisdiction": "US-NJ", "platformType": "other", "outcomeType": "lawsuit_filed", "outcomeStatus": "ongoing", "primarySourceUrl": "https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.njd.585002/gov.uscourts.njd.585002.1.0.pdf", "primarySourceLabel": "Federal complaint, D.N.J. 2:25-cv-16671-ES-JBC (45 pages, read via pdftotext)", "firstPublishedAt": "2026-05-10T10:35:08.921808+00:00", "scopeVersion": "facts-v3", "tags": [ "lawsuit", "federal", "minor", "new-jersey", "clothoff", "deepfake", "csam", "ncii", "yale-law", "ongoing" ] } ] }