Woman claims her stepfather used Grok to transform childhood photo into explicit imagery
📍 Where it landed
The controversy expanded as additional women filed lawsuits claiming Grok generated child sexual abuse material from their childhood photos, with reports of 7,000 fake explicit images being created and the stepfather dying by suicide after the images were discovered. No definitive legal resolution was reported before coverage ceased.
Epilogue added 10h ago, after coverage quieted.
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