Office of the
Illinois Attorney General
Kwame Raoul

Chicago – Attorney General Kwame Raoul, as part of a bipartisan group of 35 attorneys general, demanded that xAI, the company that owns both the X social media platform and the AI chatbot Grok, take additional action to prevent Grok from generating nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material.

 Users have repeatedly prompted Grok to “undress” women and children and to place them in sexualized contexts without consent. A recent analysis found that over one 24-hour period, the chatbot had generated about 6,700 images an hour that were identified as sexually suggestive. In some cases, Grok has generated images depicting children in minimal clothing or sexual situations.

In their letter, the attorneys general note that xAI has marketed Grok’s permissive content generation as a selling point and warn that “the ability to create nonconsensual intimate images appears to be a feature, not a bug.”

“Grok has made these images publicly available and sharable at the click of a button. It is unacceptable, causes real harm to women and children and, in some cases, may violate the law,” Raoul said. “This content drives harassment and exploitation, and it deprives people of control over how their bodies and likenesses are portrayed. I’m calling on xAI to ensure that this content can no longer be created and distributed with its products, and to remove any existing content from its platform.”

Although xAI has recently implemented limited measures that appear to have reduced the volume of this content, Raoul and the attorneys general are demanding assurances that these safeguards are effective, durable and consistently enforced. They are also urging the company to honor requests to remove this content – a requirement that will soon be mandated under federal law when the Take It Down Act becomes enforceable in May 2026.

As the chief law enforcement officers of their states, the attorneys general raise serious concerns that Grok’s outputs may violate state and federal civil and criminal laws governing nonconsensual intimate images, the creation and distribution of child sexual abuse material, and the legal remedies available to victims. In Illinois, Raoul initiated a law that prohibits the use of AI technology to create child pornography that either involves real children or obscene imagery. 

The attorneys general are demanding that xAI share how it intends to ensure that Grok is no longer capable of producing nonconsensual intimate images or child sexual abuse material and how it will eliminate such content that has already been produced. They are also calling on the company to give users control over whether their content can be edited by Grok.

Joining Attorney General Raoul in sending the letter are the attorneys general of American Samoa, Arizona, Colorado, Delaware, District of Columbia, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Dakota, North Carolina, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Virgin Islands, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin and Wyoming.