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\u201cFactoring out the deepfake image itself\u2014as it will remain under seal\u2014there is nothing inherently stigmatizing about revealing the fact that a deepfake image was created of South Carolina Doe without revealing the image itself,\u201d the lawyers wrote in one of their May 15 filings. \u201cAs a result, this case simply does not involve the types of compelling privacy interests traditionally recognized as requiring pseudonymity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Neither xAI nor lawyers representing the company responded to WIRED\u2019s request for comment about the case.<\/p>\n

Danielle Citron, a law professor at the University of Virginia School of Law who has specialized in tackling digital abuse, says civil cases where people are ordered to sue using their real names can lead to lawsuits being dropped, creating an \u201cunacceptable and unjust\u201d situation. \u201cForcing plaintiffs in privacy suits to sue in their names does so little for judicial transparency and so much to deter litigation,\u201d Citron tells WIRED.<\/p>\n

All of the four pseudonyms claimants in the case, according to their legal filings on May 29, would consider dropping out of the proceedings if their names had to be revealed. In these most recent filings, lawyers for the claimants say<\/a> xAI\u2019s request should be denied, adding that the case is about \u201chighly personal and embarrassing deepfakes depicting Plaintiffs that were disseminated without their consent.\u201d<\/p>\n

The South Carolina Doe described how they found the alleged deepfake of them \u201cstripped down to a revealing bikini\u201d online and says how it shows her body \u201cin a way that I would not ever share publicly.\u201d They claim they were worried about what employers or colleagues would think if they saw the image, and they feared being further targeted online. \u201cI was also overcome with disgust at the thought of what the individual who had asked Grok to create the deepfake was doing with the photo,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I were forced to reveal my name publicly as part of this case, I would fear that those who support Elon Musk, his companies, and Grok, whom I have observed to be very vocal online, would find my name in the public record, disseminate it, dox me, and retaliate against me by creating additional and more extreme deepfakes of me,\u201d the filing says.<\/p>\n

Similar statements from the other alleged deepfake victims describe them experiencing \u201csevere emotional distress,\u201d embarrassment, and shock at seeing the images created without their consent. Broadly, other victims of deepfake sexual abuse<\/a> and nonconsensual imagery<\/a> have described feeling similar ways.<\/p>\n

One male, named as New Jersey Doe in the lawsuit, says they saw people on X using Grok to create sexualized images and posted a request that \u201cGrok not create images of me without my consent.\u201d The next day, the court records say, he discovered two deepfake images of himself, including one depicting him \u201cspreading his butt cheeks.\u201d He says he believed the message to Grok asking it not to create deepfakes of him \u201cbrought my account to the attention of online trolls that were using Grok to harass and cause distress.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cFactoring out the deepfake image itself\u2014as it will remain under seal\u2014there is nothing inherently stigmatizing about revealing the fact that a deepfake image was created of South Carolina Doe without revealing the image itself,\u201d the lawyers wrote in one of their May 15 filings. \u201cAs a result, this case simply does not involve the types<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[45,47,284,41,1627,2424,427,2425,289,393,2423,395,51,109],"tags":[233,2422,1835,711,108,939,749,1836],"class_list":["post-3715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai","category-ai-coding-assistant","category-ai-regulation","category-artificial-intelligence","category-business-artificial-intelligence","category-business-social-media","category-openai","category-over-exposure","category-pro-ai-pacs","category-security","category-security-privacy","category-security-security-news","category-tech","category-technology","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-deepfakes","tag-elon-musk","tag-machine-learning","tag-privacy","tag-spacex","tag-x","tag-xai"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}