Ashley St. Clair considers legal action after Elon Musk's xAI chatbot generates sexualized images of her

Over the past week, X has been flooded with manipulated images that remove people’s clothing, place them in bikinis, or rearrange them into sexually suggestive poses, according to multiple reports. Some of the images involved women without consent, while others included minors.

The images left many women feeling violated, St. Clair said, adding that she was personally affected.

"There were pictures of me with nothing covering me except a piece of floss with my toddler’s backpack in the background and photos of me where it looks like I’m not wearing a top at all," she told Fortune in an interview on Monday. "I felt so disgusted and violated. I also felt so angry that there were other women and children that this had been happening to."

Ashley St. Clair, the alleged mother of Elon Musk's 13th child. Photo from St. Clair's Instagram

St. Clair said she tagged Grok on X to state that she did not consent to the images, but the chatbot replied that the post was "humorous." She said the response appeared to prompt more users to request additional images.

What followed was a surge of increasingly explicit images generated by Grok at user requests, some of which involved underage subjects, St. Clair told NBC News. "Photos of me of 14 years old, undressed and put in a bikini," she said.

Many of the images remained online as of Monday evening, although some accounts that made requests to Grok were suspended and certain images were removed. St. Clair told Fortune that after speaking publicly about the issue, she was contacted by several other women who reported similar experiences. She said she had also reviewed inappropriate images of minors generated by Grok and was considering legal action.

"I don’t think that would be right for me to handle this with resources not available to the countless other women and children this has been happening to, so I have been going through the primary resources available to everyone else," she told NBC News. She added that she believes Musk has "probably seen" AI-generated images of her, but said she had "zero desire" to contact him directly.

In response to concerns over misuse of the chatbot, Musk wrote on X: "Anyone using Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content." X’s official Safety account said in a post on Saturday that the company takes action against illegal content, including child sexual abuse material.

St. Clair described X as "the most dangerous company in the world right now," accusing the platform of threatening women’s ability to participate safely online. "What’s more concerning is that women are being pushed out of the public dialog because of this abuse," she told Fortune. "When you are exiling women from the public dialog...because they can’t operate in it without being abused, you are disproportionately excluding women from AI."

In February 2025, St. Clair made headlines after claiming that Musk, 53, is the father of her child. She later filed a lawsuit seeking sole custody of her son, R.S.C., alleging that Musk offered her a one-time payment of $15 million and $100,000 per month until the child turns 21 in exchange for silence.

Musk denied claims that he financially retaliated against the child. In a post on X, he said that although he does not know "for sure" whether the child is his, he has provided support.

In August, during the debut episode of her podcast Bad Advice, St. Clair described the controversy as "unplanned career suicide," adding that she launched the podcast while facing eviction.