Nessel joins 35 AGs pressing xAI on sexual AI images

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(The Center Square) – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has joined a multi-state push against xAI’s generation of nonconsensual images and child porn.

The bipartisan group of 35 attorneys general sent a letter to the company—which owns both the X social media platform and the AI chatbot Grok—demanding it take additional steps to address nonconsensual sexual content.

Nessel said more protections for women and children are necessary.

“No company should be putting tools into the public’s hands that deliberately make it easier to sexually exploit others,” Nessel said. “xAI must immediately disable Grok’s ability to produce this kind of exploitative material, remove nonconsensual content that already exists, and report illegal activity to the authorities.”

The letter stated that “bad actors” are creating these deepfake nonconsensual intimate images of real people, including children.

It alleges that Grok is receiving “special attention” because of evidence it:

• Promoted and facilitated the production and public dissemination of such images

• Made it all as easy as the click of a button

The letter acknowledged that xAI has implemented certain measures and made public assurances, but stated that is not enough.

“We are concerned that these efforts may not have completely solved the issues. We call for you to immediately take all available additional steps to protect the public and users of your platforms, especially the women and girls who are the overwhelming target,” it said.

It added that “the ability to create nonconsensual intimate images appears to be a feature, not a bug” of xAI.

The attorneys general ask that xAI do more to prevent this type of content and honor requests for it to be removed.

Already, this content will have a short lifespan when the Take It Down Act will become enforceable in May 2026. Signed into law in May 2025, that act is federal legislation that criminalizes the nonconsensual sharing of intimate imagery and deep fakes.

It also mandates that online platforms remove such content within 48 hours of receiving a request.

Additionally, Michigan law already restricts the use of AI in political campaigns. It also has created a civil crime for the dissemination of pornographic deep fakes

The letter listed a series of demands from the attorneys general of xAI, including:

• Taking “all necessary measures” to prevent nonconsensual intimate images and child porn

• Eliminate that content already produced

• Suspend users creating that content

• Report those users to law enforcement

In addition to this letter, just last week a California woman filed a class action lawsuit against xAI for creating a “generative artificial intelligence chatbot that humiliates and sexually exploits women and girls by undressing them and posing them in sexual positions in deepfake images publicly posted on X.”