{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-07T02:56:55.800Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"grading","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"lawsuit","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":1,"coverage":{"cases":1,"countries":0,"languages":1,"unknownLocation":1,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":0,"minors":0,"coreRelations":1,"contextualRelations":0,"mixedRelations":0,"unknownRelations":0,"relationPending":0,"relationUnknown":0},"countingNote":"Distinct public cases in this selection. People counts apply within individual cases only; cross-case person overlap has not been resolved. No population incidence estimate.","affectedCountNote":"Interpret person counts with affectedCountStatus and the reported effects. Unquantified zeros are placeholders, not a measured zero.","source":"AI incidents","publisher":"NOPE","url":"https://nope.net/incidents","license":"CC BY 4.0"},"incidents":[{"id":"2026-asato-v-xai-grok","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On 6 January 2026, the Claimant posted on her profile on the X Platform about reports'; 'Following this, from on or around 11 January:'; 'In response to those Prompts, Grok created and generated a substantial number of sexualised, intimate, grossly offensive, degrading, threatening, humiliating and/or discriminatory Manipulated Images of the Claimant'; 'were automatically published on the X Platform via the Grok Account'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'I posted on social media saying that Elon Musk should stop Grok from being able to do this.'; 'And then, of course, I became a victim of the same trend. So Grok put this woman in a bikini.'; 'the only reason why I knew it was Grok was because it was integrated with X, and you could see the commands that had been given by the users'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'She was subjected in early January 2026 to manipulation of her image by Grok'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The claimant, a UK Member of Parliament, says that after she posted on X on 6 January 2026 saying Elon Musk had the power to stop his product being used to strip women without their consent, X users from about 11 January prompted Grok to create sexualised, degrading and humiliating manipulated images of her, which Grok made and published on X and the Grok website.","causal_attribution":"The claimant’s pleaded case and her own interview account; xAI has not filed a defence according to the claimant, and no court has found what Grok generated."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'publicly depicted her in bikinis'; 'footage of an interview which the Claimant had given on 12 January 2026'; 'generate a manipulated photorealistic video which depicted the Claimant being sexually assaulted by a group of men'; 'contained elements and features which had not been requested'; 'were introduced independently by Grok'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'They weren’t nude images, but they were me with inflated boobs in a bikini.'; 'But the really disturbing one was a video of me being surrounded by a group of men'; 'So no nudity, but clearly the next frame is meant to be a sexual assault.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'including images of her in a bikini and a video showing her as the victim of a sexual assault'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"According to the claim and her interview, the material included photorealistic images of her in bikinis and other images meant to degrade her, and a video made from footage of a 12 January 2026 interview that depicted her surrounded by men and about to be sexually assaulted; the claim alleges Grok added features to the video that the prompt had not requested.","causal_attribution":"Allegations in the particulars of claim and the claimant’s interview; the unrequested-features allegation is the claimant’s pleaded case, not a finding."},{"id":"c3","status":"documented","evidence":[{"locator":"'Claim No. KB-2026-002373'; 'MEDIA & COMMUNICATIONS LIST'; 'The Claimant seeks declaratory relief, damages/compensation and other remedies against the Defendant for the tort of misuse of private information and for contraventions of the UK General Data Protection Regulation'; '24 July 2026'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'The claim seeks a ‘compliance order’ against xAI to bring their systems into compliance with the law.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Particulars of claim dated 24 July 2026 in Jessica Asato MP v X.AI LLC (High Court, King’s Bench Division, Media and Communications List, claim no. KB-2026-002373) plead misuse of private information and contraventions of the UK GDPR and Data Protection Act 2018, and seek declaratory relief, damages and a compliance order.","causal_attribution":"The filed pleading establishes that the claim was brought and what it seeks; its allegations remain allegations."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'On 3 June 2026, Ms Asato filed a claim in the High Court in England for breaches of data protection law and misuse of her private information'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Bench Division of the Royal Courts of Justice, London'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"Her solicitors say the claim was filed in the High Court in England on 3 June 2026.","causal_attribution":"Procedural statement by the claimant’s solicitors."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'refusing to remove any of the reported posts on the basis that'; 'at least nine of the reported posts on the X Platform had been removed'; 'were “no longer available on the platform”'; 'six of the twenty-one posts reported on 18 February 2026 are still publicly available on the X Platform'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Because each of these things we reported to X, and none of them contravened their terms and conditions.'; 'who sent a letter to X to ask for these to be removed, and they were'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'We have already obtained the removal of the offending images'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The claimant says her reports to X were rejected as not breaching its terms; the claim says X refused on 2 March 2026 to remove the posts her solicitors reported, saying they did not breach its rules, although at least nine had by then been removed, that xAI confirmed on 25 March that two videos on the standalone Grok service, including the assault video, were no longer available, and that six of 21 reported posts were still public when the claim was pleaded.","causal_attribution":"The claimant’s pleaded chronology and interview account; the accounts differ on how complete the removals were."},{"id":"c6","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the Claimant suffered significant distress, anxiety, alarm and intrusion'; 'The Claimant was acutely distressed by the Sexual Assault Video'; 'portrayed her in situations that have made her feel degraded and violated'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'including distress and a sense that I was being harassed by this particular creation of this particular video'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The claimant says the images and the video caused her significant distress and left her feeling degraded, violated and harassed.","causal_attribution":"The claimant’s own account of her distress."},{"id":"c7","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'we should be receiving the response and the defense from SpaceXAI in the near future'; 'But we don’t have a deadline or a particular time that I can put on it.'; 'then it will go to a court hearing. But once again, no idea when that might be.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"In an interview published on 27 October 2026 the claimant said xAI’s defence had not yet been received, that she had no date for it, and that any court hearing date was unknown.","causal_attribution":"The claimant’s statement of the case status."},{"id":"c8","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'lives in the US, so the police aren’t gonna follow it up because they’re out of the country'; 'They just weren’t able to bring the charge.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"}],"assertion":"The claimant told WIRED that police identified the person who made the assault video but could not bring a charge because that person lives in the United States.","causal_attribution":"The claimant’s account; no police statement was inspected."}],"effects":[{"label":"a UK MP says Grok generated and published sexualised images and a sexual-assault video of her at X users’ requests","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"she describes significant distress and feeling degraded, violated and harassed","claim_id":"c6","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://awo.agency/articles/first-claim-in-the-uk-against-groks-nonconsensual-deepfakes/","kind":"legal_representative_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English; no translation needed.","independence_group":"asato-claimant-legal-team"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://awo.agency/documents/47/Asato_MP_v_X.AI_LLC_-_Particulars_of_Claim_.pdf","kind":"court_filing","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English; no translation needed.","independence_group":"asato-claimant-legal-team"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://awo.agency/articles/particulars-of-claim-jess-asato-mp-v-xai/","kind":"legal_representative_statement","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English; no translation needed.","independence_group":"asato-claimant-legal-team"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.wired.com/story/the-big-interview-podcast-jess-asato/","kind":"news_interview","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English; no translation needed.","independence_group":"wired-interview"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["privacy","public_life"],"unknowns":["xAI’s response: according to the claimant on 27 October 2026, no defence had yet been received; the court file beyond the published particulars was not inspected.","The total number of images of the claimant that Grok generated is not known; the claim says it awaits disclosure.","How completely the material was removed: the claim says six of 21 reported posts remained public in July 2026, while the claimant told WIRED that the posts were removed after her lawyer wrote to X.","No police statement about the identified maker of the video was inspected."],"geography":{"basis":"The claimant is a Member of Parliament for Lowestoft in Suffolk (particulars of claim). The claim is in the High Court in London, King’s Bench Division. Where the images were generated and by whom is not established, and the user who made the video is said to live in the United States, so no event country is recorded.","court_countries":["GB"],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["GB"]},"publication":{"basis":"Full review of a restored row: re-read the solicitors’ June announcement and added the published particulars of claim and the claimant’s 27 October 2026 WIRED interview. A named public figure’s own claim against the AI developer, with the AI system’s output described in her pleading and interview; allegations remain attributed.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-28"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The particulars of claim allege that Grok itself created the manipulated images and the video of the claimant in response to X users’ prompts and published them through the Grok account on X and the Grok website, and that Grok added unrequested features to the video. The claimant told WIRED she knew the material came from Grok because it was integrated with X and the users’ commands to Grok were visible. The claim says xAI later confirmed that two videos on the standalone Grok service were no longer available. These remain the claimant’s allegations; xAI has not filed a defence according to the claimant, and no court has made a finding.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"UK MP Jess Asato sues xAI, alleging Grok generated sexualised images and a sexual-assault video of her at X users’ requests","summary":"Jess Asato, the Labour MP for Lowestoft, alleges in a High Court claim against xAI that after she posted on X on 6 January 2026 that Elon Musk must stop Grok being used to strip women without their consent, X users from about 11 January prompted Grok to make sexualised and degrading images of her, which Grok generated and published on X and its website, including bikini images and a video depicting her about to be sexually assaulted. Her particulars of claim (24 July 2026) plead misuse of private information and data protection breaches and seek damages and a compliance order. She says X rejected her reports and that she suffered significant distress. In a WIRED interview on 27 October 2026 she said xAI’s defence had not yet been received. These are the claimant’s allegations; no court has ruled on them.","incidentDate":"2026-01-01","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-06-03","aiSystem":"Grok (xAI chatbot, including its image and video generation on X and the Grok website), as pleaded","aiProduct":"Grok","aiCompany":"xAI","severity":"high","verificationStatus":"unverified","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse","psychological_distress"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"A UK MP alleges Grok generated and published sexualised images and a video depicting her about to be sexually assaulted, at X users’ requests, and says this caused her significant distress.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"alleged","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person, the claimant, is described as harmed in this case; other women depicted by Grok in the same period are not counted here.","victimAgeRange":"adult","outcomeType":"lawsuit_filed","outcomeStatus":"pending","primarySourceUrl":"https://awo.agency/articles/first-claim-in-the-uk-against-groks-nonconsensual-deepfakes/","primarySourceLabel":"AWO (claimant’s solicitors): First claim in the UK against Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes, 3 June 2026","firstPublishedAt":"2026-06-14T11:10:33.428074+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-28T03:05:57.509424+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["privacy","public_life","deepfakes","non-consensual-imagery","grok","lawsuit","united-kingdom"]}]}