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The lawsuit says more than 7,000 fake explicit images were created, and that one was made from a photo taken when she was 11. The report says law enforcement later raided the stepfather's devices for child sexual abuse material and that he was found dead two days later. Jane Doe 4 joined three teenagers in an earlier class action in Tennessee. California's attorney general and the European Union have separately opened probes into xAI and X over alleged child sexual abuse material generation. 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The 7,000-image count is alleged in the complaint, not verified. The date the harm occurred is not stated. Date disclosed uses the article date. The January dates are given as stated; the year is inferred from the article date. The sources describe a human misuse (stepfather) of a chatbot; no autonomous agent, failure class, controls, root cause, responsible party, detection method or remediation is stated, so those fields are left out and agent_involved is not set. No model version, deployment context, lifecycle stage or intended use is stated. Country US is inferred from Wyoming, a US state. Severity major is my judgement under the regulator and stated-count tests. Records exposed and third-party count are not stated as numbers and are left out. Stepfather's death is included only as reported. 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