FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, January 23, 2026
Contact: comms@ncdoj.gov
RALEIGH – Attorney General Jeff Jackson today led a bipartisan coalition of 35 attorneys general demanding that xAI stop its AI chatbot, Grok, from generating nonconsensual sexual images and remove any that remain. xAI owns both the Grok chatbot and the X social media platform, where nonconsensual sexual images have been made publicly available at scale.
“This is about basic dignity. No one should be able to use AI to digitally undress you and post it online against your will. xAI needs to ban the creation of nonconsensual sexual images and remove the existing images now,” said Attorney General Jeff Jackson. “The use of this tool to harass and demean women was entirely predictable and never should have been allowed to happen in the first place.”
Over the past several weeks, Grok allowed users to create and publicly post sexually altered images of real people at the click of a button, driving harassment and exploitation.
The New York Times reported that in the span of nine days, Grok “generated and posted 4.4 million images, of which at least 41 percent were sexualized images of women.”
In the past week, xAI has implemented some measures to address these issues which appear to have reduced the number of sexualized images. But the attorneys general are urging the company to ensure these steps are effective and that it honors requests from users to remove the content – which will shortly be required by federal law when the Take It Down Act becomes enforceable in May 2026.
The attorneys general are demanding that xAI share how it intends to:
- Ensure that Grok is no longer capable of producing nonconsensual sexual images.
- Eliminate such content that has already been produced.
- Take action against users who have generated this content.
- Grant X users control over whether their content can be edited by Grok.
Attorney General Jackson is leading a national effort on AI safety. He and Utah Attorney General Derek Brown formed a bipartisan AI Task Force last year to develop address issues raised by the technology and identify safeguards that AI developers should follow to protect the public. The task force held their first meeting last week.
Last year, he demanded that Apple, Microsoft, Meta, and other AI tech companies adopt safeguards against predatory artificial intelligence assistants and chatbots that have inappropriate conversations with children. He also demanded that search engines, banks, and payment platforms take steps to prevent people from profiting off of or creating and sharing deepfake nonconsensual sexual images.
Attorney General Jackson is sending this letter to xAI alongside the Attorneys General of Utah, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, American Samoa, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
A copy of the letter is available here.
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