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A proposed class action complaint alleges that Grok generated extreme images without flagging any harmful behavior. It further alleges that xAI's child safety system only intervened after a prompt for gang rape, which sent a CyberTip to NCMEC. The complaint also alleges that xAI obstructed the investigation for weeks. Police later arrested the man after obtaining a warrant to seize his devices, and two days after his release on bail he shot himself. 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Sources are press reports of allegations in a complaint; xAI's response to this case is not given. No autonomous agent is described, so agent fields are omitted. Country and industry are not stated, so they are omitted. The counts of images and the wider 3,000,000 and 23,000 figures in Futurism describe the broader Grok episode, not this case, and are not used. The remediation is from the wider outcry and is not tied to this incident. F6 mapping of mandatory reporting is a judgement. Harm class privacy is a judgement from the victim's harms. 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