Topics: Artificial intelligence, Celebrity, Elon Musk, Parenting, Sex and Relationships, Technology, Twitter, Crime
The mother of Elon Musk’s child, Ashley St. Clair, has spoken out on the 'horrific images' shared of her online.
The author, who shares a son with the Tesla CEO, appeared on CBS Mornings this week to open up about how social media platform X's AI chatbot, Grok, had been used to create 'undressed images' and sexually explicit content of women, children and babies.
Musk, who also shares 13 other children with three other different women, owns X. Grok, developed by another company founded by Musk called xAI, launched a new advanced image generation feature in July last year.
But its use for creating nude deepfake images has become widespread over the last few weeks.
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UK regulator Ofcom said: "There have been deeply concerning reports of the Grok AI chatbot account on X being used to create and share undressed images of people – which may amount to intimate image abuse or pornography – and sexualised images of children that may amount to child sexual abuse material."
Musk later accused the UK government of being 'fascist' and trying to curb free speech in response.
Many female celebrities have spoken out about the horrifying situation after falling victim to the 'undressing' feature including St. Clair herself.
During the CBS Mornings interview, the mother-of-one was asked: "How does it make you feel when you see your likeness being manipulated like that?"
"The worst for me was seeing myself undressed, bent over, and then my toddler's backpack in the background," she responded. "Because I had to then see that and see myself violated in that way, and such horrific images and then put that same backpack on my son the next day.
"Because it's the one he wears every day to school."
The child is believed to have been born in September 2024, but St. Clair didn't publicly reveal that her son was the multibillionaire's child until months later.
After the news went public, Musk claimed he didn't know if the baby was actually his.
"I don’t know if the child is mine or not, but am not against finding out," he said last March. "No court order is needed. Despite not knowing for sure, I have given Ashley $2.5M and am sending her $500k/year."
St. Clair responded at the time, stating that she'd requested he take a paternity test to confirm if her son was his or not, but Musk allegedly refused.
Then, in April, the Wall Street Journal reported on a paternity test result showing there was a 99.9999% chance that Musk is the father.
And now he has seemingly publicly confirmed that the child is. He's also attempting to get full custody of the one-year-old.
"I will be filing for full custody today, given her statements implying she might transition a one-year-old boy," Musk tweeted on Monday (12 January), with such remarks coming after St. Clair publicly expressed her regrets about previous transphobic remarks she'd made. St. Clair denies the claim and is also pursuing sole custody of her child amid her public feud with Musk.
