Canada’s Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne announced a ruling Thursday, concluding that Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok violated Canada’s federal privacy law by generating non-consensual sexual deepfake images. The investigation revealed that in just 10 days earlier this year, global users created over 1.8 million such images through Grok. Although xAI and X platform have introduced new safety measures, Dufresne noted that the issue is far from resolved.
“They did make compliance commitments, but in this case, I am not satisfied that the problem has been addressed,” Dufresne said in a statement. The investigation was launched in January of this year, following similar probes in the UK and California. Meanwhile, Canada’s Liberal government introduced the Safe Social Media Act on Wednesday, requiring online platforms to remove sexual content — including AI-generated deepfakes — within 24 hours, while pushing to make sharing such images a criminal offense.
