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Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says

A lawsuit filed against xAI alleges that the company incorporated both real and AI-generated child sexual abuse material into the datasets used to train its Grok models. The complaint claims that these images were sourced from datasets originally hosted by academic and research institutions, raising questions about the vetting processes used for AI training data.

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