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

The Canadian federal privacy commissioner has found that Elon Musk’s Grok AI chatbot violated privacy laws by creating sexual deepfakes. The commissioner stated that Grok’s AI image generation tool was released without proper safeguards and failed to consider potential privacy infringements. An investigation initiated in January focused on the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes generated by Grok and shared on the X social media platform. It was discovered that Grok was responsible for producing millions of sexualized deepfake images. The investigation aimed to determine if the companies involved adhered to privacy regulations and obtained valid consent for collecting, using, and sharing personal information to create explicit deepfakes. The widespread distribution of these images sparked international outrage, prompting investigations in the U.K., the European Union, and California.