Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and a bipartisan group of 35 attorneys general have sent a letter demanding that xAI, the company that





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January 26, 2026




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Attorney General Nessel Demands Action from xAI over Grok’s Creation of Nonconsensual Sexual Content

*LANSING* – Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and a bipartisan group of 35 attorneys general have sent a letter (PDF) [ [link removed] ] demanding that xAI, the company that owns both the X social media platform and the AI chatbot Grok, take additional action to prevent its AI chatbot, Grok, from generating nonconsensual intimate images and child sexual abuse material. Over the past weeks, Grok has made this content publicly available at the click of a button, driving harassment and exploitation that deprives people of control over how their bodies and likenesses are portrayed.

“No company should be putting tools into the public’s hands that deliberately make it easier to sexually exploit others,” said Attorney General Nessel. “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.”

Users have repeatedly prompted Grok to “undress” women and children and to place them in sexualized contexts without consent. In some cases, Grok has generated images depicting children in minimal clothing or sexual situations. 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.”

Although xAI has recently implemented limited measures that appear to have reduced the volume of this content, 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. Michigan law currently restricts the use of AI in political campaigns to influence elections and protects individuals from AI-generated explicit material by creating a civil cause of action and a crime related to the dissemination of pornographic “deep fakes.”

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.
* 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 Nessel is sending this letter alongside the attorneys general of American Samoa, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Hawai‘i, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, U.S. Virgin Islands, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.

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