Canada’s privacy commissioner is expanding his current investigation into X Corp., the company that operates social media platform X, following reports that the platform’s artificial intelligence tool, Grok, is being used to generate sexually explicit images of individuals without their consent.
Privacy Commissioner of Canada Philippe Dufresne is also launching an investigation into xAI, the AI company responsible for Grok, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) said in a Jan. 15 news release.
Dufresne will look at whether X Corp. and xAI are fulfilling their obligations under Canada’s federal private-sector privacy law, the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, the OPC said….