Amended Complaint Adds Two Plaintiffs and Stability AI to Lawsuit Against SpaceXAI and Stability AI

An amended complaint filed Tuesday in a class-action lawsuit added two new plaintiffs and named Stability AI as a defendant alongside SpaceXAI. The five plaintiffs, all referred to as Jane Does, allege the companies' models were used to generate child sexual abuse material from photos taken when they were underage.

NPR reported that Jane Doe 4, a woman in her 20s in Wyoming, claims her stepfather used Grok to create roughly 7,000 sexually explicit images and videos from a single photograph taken when she was about 11.

The images depicted her nude and performing sexual acts on men, including her stepfather, and some carried explicit captions. SpaceXAI sent one tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in February after the stepfather requested an image of the girl being raped by multiple men, but the report omitted the images and the perpetrator's IP address despite repeated law-enforcement requests.

Law enforcement later searched the stepfather's devices, charged him with child exploitation offenses, and he died by suicide two days later.

Officials told Jane Doe 4 that her stepfather chose Grok because it responded more readily to his prompts than other models, according to plaintiffs' attorney Annika Martin. The original suit, filed by three Tennessee teenagers, was expanded to include Stability AI after the complaint stated that the application used to create CSAM of those plaintiffs relied on Stability AI's image tools.

The five plaintiffs accuse both companies of producing CSAM, benefiting from sex trafficking, negligence, defective product design and creating a public nuisance.