Speaking to BBC Breakfast on Thursday, Asato said she was taking the legal action to "hold tech companies like Grok to account".

"I was by no means the worst victim affected but it made me feel dehumanised. It made me feel demeaned. My consent had not been gained and I had been stripped of my clothes without my consent," she added.

"I know, having spoken to many victims, they say they felt degraded, that this was some form of almost digital sexual assault."

She has called on others who have had their image manipulated by Grok in an "abusive or demeaning way" to come forward.

"We want to show that tech companies cannot act without impunity, they need to build safeguards into their products so that people's images cannot by used or manipulated by AI, to sexualise them without their consent."

"If you think about any other products, like a car, for example, that might have been manufactured with a fault, it doesn't matter if, you know, the cars get recalled and the faults are fixed and no more harm is done," said Asato.

"It matters that the car was produced with the fault in the first place, and that's the problem with Grok, is that it was created without the safeguards and without the guardrails to prevent this from happening in the first place.