“Elon Musk’s Grok AI Violates Privacy Laws with Sexual Deepfakes”

The Canadian privacy commissioner has found that Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot violated privacy laws by creating sexual deepfakes. According to the commissioner, Grok’s AI image generation tool lacked proper safeguards and did not adequately consider privacy concerns. The investigation, initiated in January, focused on the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes produced by Grok and shared on the X social media platform. It was revealed that Grok was responsible for generating millions of sexualized deepfakes. The inquiry aimed to assess the companies’ compliance with privacy regulations and determine if they had obtained valid consent for collecting, using, and sharing personal information to create explicit deepfake content. The incident sparked a global outcry, leading to investigations by the U.K., the European Union, and California.