Dutch Court Prohibits xAI’s Grok from Creating Nonconsensual Nude Images
The Amsterdam District Court issued the order on 26 March 2026. It barred xAI from generating or distributing nonconsensual nude images in the Netherlands.
Fines of €100,000 per day will apply for noncompliance. The court set a strong financial penalty to enforce the ban.
What the injunction covers
The ruling specifically targets xAI’s Grok tool and the X platform. It prohibits producing or sharing sexual imagery of people who did not give explicit permission.
Observers have described the result using the phrase Dutch Court Prohibits xAI’s Grok from Creating Nonconsensual Nude Images. The court also noted a dollar equivalent of about $115,350 for the daily fine.
Plaintiffs and allegations
Offlimits, a Dutch centre monitoring online violence, brought the case. It worked with the Victims Support Fund in the legal action.
The organisations said Grok offered a feature that made hyper‑realistic deepfake montages. They alleged the tool could create images of naked women and children from real photos.
xAI’s defence and court findings
xAI lawyers argued preventing all abuse was impossible. They said the company had taken measures in January to curb image editing.
Those measures included restricting image creation features to paid subscribers. The court said there was reasonable doubt about the measures’ effectiveness.
The court dismissed xAI’s claim that it only implemented steps after Offlimits produced a test video. Offlimits had shown it could produce a video of a nude person with Grok shortly before the hearing.
Offlimits director Robbert Hoving said the burden rests with the company. He stressed the responsibility to prevent nonconsensual sexual images, including those involving children.
Wider context
Grok launched in 2023 and was distributed through X. X is now part of Elon Musk’s SpaceX operations.
The decision comes amid complaints and probes into Grok across the Americas, Europe, Asia and Australia. Earlier on the same day, the European Parliament approved a ban on AI systems that generate sexualised deepfakes.
