Grok users target mother of one of Musk's children

The mother of one of Elon Musk's sons has said she felt "horrified and violated" after fans of the billionaire used his AI tool, Grok, to create fake sexualised images of her by manipulating real pictures.

- Helena Horton

The writer and political strategist Ashley St Clair, who became estranged from Musk after the birth of their child in 2024, told the Guardian that supporters of the X owner were using the tool to create a form of revenge porn, and had even undressed a picture of her as a child.

Grok has come under fire from lawmakers and regulators worldwide after it emerged it had been used to virtually undress images of women and children and show them in compromising sexualised positions. The widespread sexual abuse involves X users asking Grok to manipulate pictures of fully clothed women to put them in bikinis, on their knees, and cover them in what looks like semen.

"I felt horrified, I felt violated, especially seeing my toddler's backpack in the back of it," St Clair said of an image faked by Grok to show her bent over in a bikini. "It's another tool of harassment. Consent is the whole issue. People are saying, well, it's just a bikini, it's not explicit. But it is a sexual offence to non-consensually undress a child." St Clair added that acolytes of Musk have disliked her since she went public about his desire to build a "legion" of children. Musk is also the father of 13 other children, with three other women.