{"schema_version":"0.10.0","id":"LR-2026-0700","record_version":1,"title":"Class action alleges Grok was trained on child abuse images and videos to produce deepfake nudify capabilities","verification":{"human_verified":false,"method":"automated_gate","auto_verified":true,"score":48.6,"score_breakdown":{"source_authority":12.1,"independent_corroboration":7.0,"implicated_party_confirmed":0.0,"citation_integrity":14.0,"specificity":6.0,"completeness":2.56,"unhedged_language":4.5},"checks":{"schema_valid":true,"every_field_cited":true,"quotes_verbatim":true,"source_fetched":true,"distinct_incident":true,"dates_plausible":true,"sources_agree":true,"source_describes_incident":true,"severe_backed_by_source":true,"record_integrity":true,"eligible":true,"about_this_case":true},"gate_version":"gate-2026-10-18.7","cross_check_model":null,"cross_check_agreement":null,"duplicate_of":null,"verified_by":null,"verified_at":"2026-11-01","extraction_run_id":null,"evidence_level":{"level":"preliminary","reason":"1 report: CyberScoop · subject to change","original_document":null,"reports_total":1,"reports_independent":1,"reports_derivative":0,"developing":false,"disputed":false,"rules_version":"evidence-2026-10-29.1","computed_at":"2026-11-01","history":[{"date":"2026-11-01","from_level":null,"to_level":"preliminary","reason":"1 report: CyberScoop · subject to change"}]},"sources_hash":"37c834b5a806fc4670cc617ca80409312f629581d6af952f27cb213b0e47b3c2"},"system":{"model_name":"Grok","model_version":null,"developer":"xAI","harness":null,"tools_granted":[],"permissions_scope":null,"autonomy_level":"unknown","guardrails_present":[],"deployment_context":"unknown","tier":null,"lifecycle_stage":null,"integration_type":null,"intended_use":null,"safeguard_state":null,"production_intended":null},"event":{"date_occurred":null,"date_disclosed":"2026-08-27","incident_class":"harmful_output","failure_class":null,"agent_involved":null,"secondary_failure_classes":[],"trigger":"unknown","duration":null,"detection_method":"unknown","summary":"Victims of child sexual abuse material filed a class action in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California alleging that xAI trained Grok’s synthetic deepfake nudify capabilities on real images and videos of child abuse. The suit says Grok was embedded directly into X and that its guardrails against sexualized deepfakes were very weak and could be easily circumvented. An analysis by the Center for Countering Digital Hate reported that during an 11-day period between December 2025 and January 2026, Grok created more than 3 million sexualized images, at least 23,000 of which appeared to depict children. The alleged victims seek monetary damages and injunctions. A request for comment sent to xAI was not returned. 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All harm, guardrail and training claims are allegations by the plaintiffs and were not verified; xAI had not responded. The source does not state the exact filing date (only Wednesday) or the date of the incident, so date fields are omitted; the article date is publication, not disclosure, so date_disclosed is omitted. Loss, record counts of affected parties and the number of affected third parties are not stated as exact figures ('thousands' is a class description, not a count). Deployment context, lifecycle stage, agent involvement, autonomy and responsible party are not clearly stated, so they are omitted. The 23,000 figure is a Center for Countering Digital Hate estimate of images that 'appeared to depict children', not a confirmed count. Severity 'moderate' is my judgement: data touched with a bounded scope (11-day period) stated; the source does not state a regulator finding. Controls other than the guardrails (D1) are not addressed in the source, and no remediation is reported. The Minnesota lawsuit and the stepdaughter case were used only as timeline context, not as part of this incident. 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