Dutch court orders xAI, Grok not to create, distribute non-consensual sex images in Netherlands


FILE PHOTO: xAI and Grok logos are seen in this illustration taken, February 16, 2025. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

AMSTERDAM, March 26 (Reuters) - ⁠A Dutch court on Thursday ⁠ordered Elon Musk's xAI and chatbot ‌Grok not to generate and distribute sexualized images of people without their consent in the ​Netherlands.

The decision in a civil ⁠suit is one ⁠of the first times a judge has ⁠weighed ‌in on xAI's responsibility for creating tools that can ⁠be used to create sexualized images, amid ​a ‌flood of complaints and investigations over ⁠Grok in ​the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia.

In a summary decision, the Amsterdam District court ⁠said xAI and Grok ​would be prohibited from "generating and/or distributing sexual imagery ... whereby persons are partially or wholly ⁠stripped naked without having given their explicit permission" and said it would impose fines of 100,000 euros ($115,350.00) per day ​if the companies ⁠do not comply.

The case was brought by ​Offlimits, a Dutch nonprofit ‌group that combats online ​sexual abuse.

($1 = 0.8669 euros)

(Reporting by Toby Sterling; Editing by Susan Fenton)

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