Jun 6, 2026 · 21 min · 10 segments
A sitting UK Labour Party lawmaker just sued Elon Musk's xAI at the High Court in London, alleging that someone used the Grok chatbot to create fake bikini images of her without consent. Jess Asato is…
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So thank you to everyone who has already subscribed because the scenario you just described, it's no longer a hypothetical thought experiment.
No, it's not.
It is currently playing out at the highest levels of the UK legal system.
Jess Asato, who is a sitting lawmaker in the UK Parliament representing the Labour Party, is taking Elon Musk's AI company, XAI, to the High Court in London.
Yeah, and the catalyst for this legal action is just highly personal.
So back in January, someone used XAI's chatbot, which is called Grok, to generate fake images of Asato in a bikini without her consent.
Awful.
Truly.
And she officially filed a civil claim this Wednesday, and then the details became public on Thursday.
and it instantly i mean instantly received total public backing from uk prime minister keir starmer
right and he openly called the generated images disgusting
he did
so this is a major story on the political front obviously but the stakes here extend far beyond the single you know horrifying incident this case is an early massive signal that the legal exposure surrounding generative artificial intelligence is permanently shifting
So thank you to everyone who has already subscribed because the scenario you just described, it's no longer a hypothetical thought experiment.
No, it's not.
It is currently playing out at the highest levels of the UK legal system.
Jess Asato, who is a sitting lawmaker in the UK Parliament representing the Labour Party, is taking Elon Musk's AI company, XAI, to the High Court in London.
Yeah, and the catalyst for this legal action is just highly personal.
So back in January, someone used XAI's chatbot, which is called Grok, to generate fake images of Asato in a bikini without her consent.
Awful.
Truly.
And she officially filed a civil claim this Wednesday, and then the details became public on Thursday.
and it instantly i mean instantly received total public backing from uk prime minister keir starmer
right and he openly called the generated images disgusting
he did
so this is a major story on the political front obviously but the stakes here extend far beyond the single you know horrifying incident this case is an early massive signal that the legal exposure surrounding generative artificial intelligence is permanently shifting
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