{"meta":{"exportedAt":"2026-11-07T02:11:04.264Z","formatVersion":2,"selection":{"q":"grading","system":"","harm":"","context":"","country":"","role":"","relation":"","evidence":"","year":"2026","response":"","severity":"","verification":"","view":"incidents","sort":"added"},"totalIncidents":3,"coverage":{"cases":3,"countries":1,"languages":3,"unknownLocation":2,"locationPending":0,"unknownLanguage":0,"unknownDate":0,"lawsuits":1,"regulatory":2,"minors":0,"coreRelations":2,"contextualRelations":1,"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-switzerland-grok-generated-sexist-insults-about-finance-minister-criminal-complaint-bern-investigation","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Am 10. März hat es auch eine Schweizer Politikerin erwischt: Bundesrätin Karin Keller-Sutter. Es war der Schweizer Peter P.*, der Grok im Verlauf einer generellen «Roast»-Diskussion mit einem Prompt gezielt animierte'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Ein Nutzer hatte den Bot am 10. März gezielt zu Beleidigungen gegen Keller-Sutter aufgefordert.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'A user of the social network X prompted the AI Grok chatbot to conjure insults against the minister.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"On 10 March 2026 a Swiss X user, during a roast thread, prompted Grok to attack Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter in hard street slang.","causal_attribution":"CH Media's report of the prompt from the post it saw; Keystone-SDA relays Sonntagsblick's report of a user prompting Grok. The prompter's identity is a pseudonym in the sources and is not recorded here."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Mit vulgären Beschimpfungen. Mit beleidigenden Körper- und Charakterangriffen. Mit abwertender und sexualisierter Sprache.' and 'Die sexualisierten Begriffe von Groks Entgleisungen sind im Screenshot des Posts auf X verpixelt.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Grok reagierte mit sexistischen und beleidigenden Aussagen, die öffentlich einsehbar und teilbar waren'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Grok replied on X with vulgar insults, attacks on her body and character, and degrading, sexualised language about Keller-Sutter, and the reply was publicly visible and shareable.","causal_attribution":"CH Media's description of Grok's post from a screenshot; both articles come from the same media group, so the claim rests on one reporting chain."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'Keller-Sutter erfuhr am Folgetag davon. Kurz darauf wurde der Beitrag gelöscht.' and '«Es war eine harmlose technische Übung, um zu sehen, was mit diesem Grok möglich ist»'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'Er löschte seinen «Roast»-Prompt und auch die Antwort von Grok.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Keller-Sutter learned of the post the next day, and the user deleted his prompt and Grok's reply shortly afterwards; the user later told Tamedia it was a harmless technical exercise.","causal_attribution":"CH Media reporting; the user's comment is his own account relayed from Tamedia."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'the Bern public prosecutor's office has opened an investigation over insult and defamation.' and 'The minister’s criminal complaint targets “unknown persons”.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"},{"locator":"'le Ministère public bernois a ouvert une enquête pour injures et diffamation.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s4"},{"locator":"'Inzwischen hat die Bundesrätin Strafanzeige wegen Verleumdung und Beschimpfung eingereicht.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"}],"assertion":"Keller-Sutter filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons, and the Bern public prosecutor's office confirmed to Keystone-SDA that it had opened an investigation for insult and defamation.","causal_attribution":"The prosecutor's confirmation to Keystone-SDA and statements by Keller-Sutter's spokesperson; the investigation has reached no reported finding."},{"id":"c5","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'«Solcher Frauenhass darf nicht als normal oder akzeptabel empfunden werden», wurde Hollenstein zitiert.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'«Der Verbreitung solcher sexistischer Texte muss eine Grenze gesetzt werden'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"Keller-Sutter's spokesperson said such misogyny must not be seen as normal or acceptable, and the finance department said the spread of such sexist texts must be limited.","causal_attribution":"Official statements by the minister's spokesperson and department."}],"effects":[{"label":"sexist and degrading insults about a named minister generated and posted publicly by a chatbot","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"},{"label":"criminal complaint and prosecutor investigation for insult and defamation","claim_id":"c4","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/bundesrat/406055717-ki-chatbot-grok-von-elon-musk-beschimpft-keller-sutter-prozess-droht","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read in German on 2026-10-12 from the publisher page (full article text); the research agent (an AI) translated the passages relied on into English for this record, and no human translator reviewed them. The article credits bzbasel.ch (CH Media).","independence_group":"ch-media"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.aargauerzeitung.ch/schweiz/keller-sutter-reicht-strafanzeige-gegen-elon-musks-ki-grok-ein-ld.4147350","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"de","translation_note":"Read in German on 2026-10-12 from the publisher page (full article text); the research agent (an AI) translated the passages relied on into English for this record, and no human translator reviewed them. Same newsroom group as s1 (CH Media); it relays Tamedia for the complaint and the user's comment.","independence_group":"ch-media"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/various/ai-chatbot-criminal-investigation-following-karin-keller-sutters-complaint/91249480","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-12 from the publisher page; swissinfo.ch states that it translates selected news agency copy with automatic translation tools and that a journalist then reviews the translation, so the English text is a reviewed machine translation of a Keystone-SDA report. No further translation by the research agent (an AI) was needed.","independence_group":"keystone-sda"},{"id":"s4","url":"https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/chatbot-dia%3aenqu%c3%aate-p%c3%a9nale-apr%c3%a8s-la-plainte-de-karin-keller-sutter/91248423","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"fr","translation_note":"Read in French on 2026-10-12 from the publisher page (Keystone-ATS copy); the research agent (an AI) translated the passages relied on into English for this record, and no human translator reviewed them. Same agency as s3.","independence_group":"keystone-sda"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["public_services","everyday_life"],"unknowns":["The full text of Grok's reply as posted; the sources quote parts and describe the rest from a screenshot.","How many people saw or shared the reply before it was deleted.","Whether the investigation has identified anyone or reached any decision, and whether xAI or X responded.","Keller-Sutter's own description of any personal effect; only her spokesperson and department are quoted.","Where the user was when he prompted Grok."],"geography":{"basis":"Keller-Sutter is a member of the Swiss Federal Council and head of its finance department, the office through which the reply targeted her, and the Bern public prosecutor's office opened the investigation. The sources call the user Swiss but do not say where he prompted Grok or where the reply was posted from, so the event country is left unknown; the investigation is not a court proceeding.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":[],"affected_person_countries":["CH"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published on CH Media's description, from a screenshot, of Grok's own reply on X insulting Federal Councillor Keller-Sutter in sexist and degrading terms after a user asked for a roast, together with Keystone-SDA's report that the Bern prosecutor opened an investigation for insult and defamation on her complaint. The generated reply is the AI output and the public abuse of the named minister is the reported harm. The case adds a criminal investigation by a public prosecutor as a legal outcome. Claims stay reported because each rests on one reporting chain or on official statements.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-12"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"watson (CH Media) describes Grok's own reply on X, from a screenshot of the post: after a user asked for a hard street-slang roast of the minister, Grok answered that it would and wrote vulgar insults, attacks on her body and character, and degrading, sexualised language about her (\"Mit vulgären Beschimpfungen. Mit beleidigenden Körper- und Charakterangriffen. Mit abwertender und sexualisierter Sprache.\"). The Aargauer Zeitung reports that Grok's statements were publicly visible and shareable, and Keystone-SDA reports that a user prompted Grok to produce insults against the minister. The generated reply is the material her criminal complaint for insult and defamation concerns.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["made_claim_about"]},"name":"Switzerland: Grok posted sexist insults about Finance Minister Karin Keller-Sutter on X at a user's prompt; her complaint led to a criminal investigation","summary":"On 10 March 2026, according to CH Media reporting published by watson, a Swiss X user taking part in a \"roast\" thread asked xAI's chatbot Grok to attack Federal Councillor Karin Keller-Sutter, Switzerland's finance minister, in hard street slang. Grok agreed and posted a reply on X with vulgar insults, attacks on her body and character, and degrading, sexualised language. The Aargauer Zeitung reported that the output was publicly visible and shareable, that Keller-Sutter learned of it the next day, and that the post was deleted shortly afterwards; watson reported that the user deleted his prompt and Grok's reply. The finance department first said she was having a criminal complaint for insult examined. Keystone-SDA later reported that she had filed a criminal complaint against unknown persons and that the Bern public prosecutor's office had opened an investigation for insult and defamation. Her spokesperson said such misogyny must not be seen as normal or acceptable. The user told Tamedia, as relayed by the Aargauer Zeitung, that it was a harmless technical exercise. No outcome of the investigation is reported.","incidentDate":"2026-03-10","incidentKind":"single_event","incidentDatePrecision":"day","exposurePattern":"single_interaction","reportedDate":"2026-03-15","aiSystem":"Grok, the xAI chatbot that replies to users on X, prompted by an X user during a \"roast\" thread","aiProduct":"Grok","aiCompany":"xAI","severity":"low","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["reputational_harm"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"Grok's reply, posted publicly on X, subjected Keller-Sutter to sexist and degrading insults that the FDP co-president who discussed it with her called a sexist insult of the ugliest and most vulgar kind. Keller-Sutter filed a criminal complaint for insult and defamation, and her spokesperson described the content as misogyny. Her own description of any personal effect is not reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":1,"affectedCountStatus":"exact","affectedCountEvidence":"One person: Karin Keller-Sutter, the target of Grok's reply, who filed the complaint. Other politicians targeted in other users' roast threads are not part of this event and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"CH","platformType":"chatbot","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"ongoing","primarySourceUrl":"https://www.watson.ch/schweiz/bundesrat/406055717-ki-chatbot-grok-von-elon-musk-beschimpft-keller-sutter-prozess-droht","primarySourceLabel":"watson, 15 March 2026: KI-Chatbot Grok von Elon Musk beschimpft Keller-Sutter, Prozess droht","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-12T03:13:18.439789+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-12T03:13:18.439789+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["grok","x","chatbot","insult","defamation","misogyny","switzerland","criminal-complaint","public-official","made-claim-about"]},{"id":"2026-jersey-school-branded-tiktok-account-ai-videos-depicting-teachers-reported-to-police","caseFacts":{"claims":[{"id":"c1","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'A social media account which posted \"deeply inappropriate deepfake content\" which \"targeted school staff\" is being investigated by police.' and 'uploaded five videos - with some including staff members.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'A total of five videos were uploaded to the account, all depicting teachers in degrading or inappropriate scenarios.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"A TikTok account that used a Jersey school's badge and branding uploaded five videos, some including members of staff, and the material was described as deepfake content targeting school staff.","causal_attribution":"BBC News and the JEP each describe the account; the BBC report quotes the deepfake description without naming its speaker, and the JEP attributes \"deeply inappropriate\" to the Education Minister."},{"id":"c2","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'DEEPFAKE videos depicting Jersey teachers in humiliating, compromising and sexualised scenarios' and 'One AI-generated video shows two male teachers performing exaggerated dance moves beneath the caption' and 'In one, a male teacher is depicted barking, getting down on all fours and eating from a dog bowl.' and 'while others carry sexual undertones while some set out to ridicule the appearance of specific staff members.' and 'were viewed nearly 20,000 times within a matter of days.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'Some clips involved teachers getting on all-fours and eating dog food, one teacher holding a gun'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The JEP reported that the videos were AI-generated and showed teachers in humiliating, compromising and sexualised scenarios, including two male teachers dancing beneath a caption insinuating interest in young girls, a teacher barking and eating from a dog bowl, and clips ridiculing the appearance of specific staff members, and that they were viewed nearly 20,000 times within days.","causal_attribution":"The JEP's own description of the videos, repeated in its follow-up."},{"id":"c3","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'which the JEP has chosen not to name' and 'is free to download and invites the user to “remix anyone into viral'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"},{"locator":"'all generated through a free software app'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s3"}],"assertion":"The JEP reported that the videos were made with a free AI app, which it chose not to name, that invites users to \"remix anyone into viral memes\".","causal_attribution":"The JEP's identification of the app type; the app is not named and the account holder is not identified."},{"id":"c4","status":"reported","evidence":[{"locator":"'The Education and Lifelong Learning Minister confirmed the incident had been reported to both TikTok and the States of Jersey Police.' and 'The account has since been removed from the platform.'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s2"},{"locator":"'has been reported to both TikTok and the police, and we are working closely with the school to support staff and students'","relation":"supports","source_id":"s1"}],"assertion":"The Education Minister said the matter had been reported to TikTok and the States of Jersey Police and that his department was working with the school to support staff and students; the account was removed from TikTok.","causal_attribution":"The Education Minister's statement, relayed by both outlets; one origin."}],"effects":[{"label":"teachers depicted without consent in humiliating and sexualised AI-generated videos on an account posing as their school","claim_id":"c2","direction":"negative"}],"sources":[{"id":"s1","url":"https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2026/02/16/ai-abuse-of-jersey-teachers-reported-to-police/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-11 from an Internet Archive capture of the article (20260218110009) because the live site rate-limited the fetcher; no translation was needed and the research agent (an AI) read the text directly.","independence_group":"jersey-evening-post"},{"id":"s2","url":"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyze77xvdgo","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-11 from the publisher page (full article); no translation was needed and the research agent (an AI) read the text directly.","independence_group":"bbc-jersey"},{"id":"s3","url":"https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2026/02/17/ai-deepfakes-could-have-life-changing-effects-says-information-commissioner/","kind":"news_report","access":"read","language":"en","translation_note":"Read in English on 2026-10-11 from an Internet Archive capture of the article (20260623175139); no translation was needed and the research agent (an AI) read the text directly. Same newsroom as s1.","independence_group":"jersey-evening-post"}],"version":1,"ai_roles":["others_use"],"contexts":["education","work"],"unknowns":["Who created and posted the videos; no arrest, charge or identification is reported.","The exact dates the videos were posted; the JEP's 16 February 2026 report says they were viewed nearly 20,000 times within a matter of days, which places the posting shortly before that report.","How many teachers were depicted in total; the JEP gives two in one video and otherwise refers to teachers and staff without a number.","The effects on the teachers in their own words; no teacher is quoted.","Which AI app was used; the JEP chose not to name it."],"geography":{"basis":"Both outlets describe the account as impersonating a school in Jersey whose teachers it depicted, and the minister reported it to the States of Jersey Police; the harm was the depiction of staff at that Jersey school. Where the account holder made or posted the videos is not stated. No court proceeding is reported.","court_countries":[],"event_countries":["JE"],"affected_person_countries":["JE"]},"publication":{"basis":"Published on the Jersey Evening Post's description of AI-generated videos, made with a free AI app, that depicted identifiable teachers in degrading and sexualised scenes on an account posing as their school, with BBC News separately reporting the account, its five videos featuring staff and the minister's police report. The generated videos are the described AI output and the non-consensual depiction of the teachers is the reported harm. Claims remain reported because the description of the content rests on the JEP and the official statements on the minister.","reviewed_on":"2026-10-11"},"ai_involvement":{"basis":"The Jersey Evening Post describes the clips as AI-generated: \"One AI-generated video shows two male teachers\" and another video \"is a montage of AI-generated deepfake clips\", made with a free app that \"invites the user to 'remix anyone into viral memes'\"; its follow-up says the videos were \"all generated through a free software app\". The generated videos are the harmful material: they placed real teachers in degrading, humiliating and sexualised scenes and were posted under the school's branding. BBC News describes the material, in quotation marks it does not attribute to a named speaker, as \"deeply inappropriate deepfake content\", and the JEP attributes \"deeply inappropriate\" to the Education Minister. The app is not named.","status":"reported"},"person_relations":["depicted_or_impersonated"]},"name":"Jersey: a TikTok account posing as a school posted AI-generated videos showing teachers in humiliating and sexualised scenes, reported to police","summary":"In February 2026 a TikTok account that used the name, badge and branding of a school in Jersey, and presented itself as \"official\", uploaded five videos depicting teachers at the school. The Jersey Evening Post (JEP) described the videos as AI-generated deepfakes made with a free app and reported that they showed teachers in humiliating, compromising and sexualised scenarios: in one, two male teachers dance beneath a caption insinuating sexual interest in young girls; a montage shows a teacher barking and eating from a dog bowl and teachers firing guns, while other clips ridicule the appearance of specific staff members. The JEP reported the videos were viewed nearly 20,000 times within days. Education Minister Rob Ward described the content as \"deeply inappropriate\", confirmed it had been reported to TikTok and the States of Jersey Police, and said his department was working with the school to support staff and students; he said it appeared to be an isolated incident. The account was removed from TikTok. No arrest, charge or identification of the account holder is reported, and no teacher is quoted.","incidentDate":"2026-02-01","incidentKind":"bounded_series","incidentDatePrecision":"month","exposurePattern":"unknown","reportedDate":"2026-02-16","aiSystem":"A free AI video app that, according to the Jersey Evening Post, invites users to \"remix anyone into viral memes\"; the newspaper chose not to name it.","aiProduct":"Unidentified video tool","severity":"medium","verificationStatus":"credible","harmCategories":[],"harmOutcomes":["exploitation_or_abuse"],"harmOutcomeSummary":"According to the Jersey Evening Post, teachers were depicted without their consent in degrading, humiliating and sexualised AI-generated scenes, including a caption insinuating sexual interest in young girls, on an account that posed as the school's official account and was viewed nearly 20,000 times within days. The Education Minister said the matter was reported to police and that his department was supporting those affected. No teacher's own account of the effects is reported.","frameworkFacets":[],"causationStatus":"supported","participantUsersAffectedMin":0,"otherPeopleHarmedMin":2,"affectedCountStatus":"documented_minimum","affectedCountEvidence":"The Jersey Evening Post states that one AI-generated video \"shows two male teachers\"; those two are the documented minimum of people depicted. The other four videos depict teachers whose number is not stated (one shows \"a male teacher\", who may be one of the two), so the count is a minimum. View and share figures are audience measures and are not counted.","victimAgeRange":"adult","jurisdiction":"JE","platformType":"other","outcomeType":"investigation_opened","outcomeStatus":"unknown","primarySourceUrl":"https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2026/02/16/ai-abuse-of-jersey-teachers-reported-to-police/","primarySourceLabel":"Jersey Evening Post, 16 February 2026: AI abuse of Jersey teachers reported to police","firstPublishedAt":"2026-10-11T03:13:39.210247+00:00","updatedAt":"2026-10-11T03:13:39.210247+00:00","scopeVersion":"facts-v3","tags":["deepfake","ai-generated-video","teachers","school","tiktok","impersonation","jersey","depicted-or-impersonated","others-use"]},{"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. 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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"]}]}