Sexual deepfakes generated by the Grok AI chatbot and shared on the X social media platform breached Canadian privacy laws, the country’s privacy watchdog says.
Grok’s AI image-generation tool was introduced without sufficient safeguards and failed to take into account potential privacy harms, Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a press conference on Parliament Hill on June 11.
“This lack of protection allowed users to create and share sexualized deepfakes, largely targeting women and children,” Dufresne said. “We know that sexualized deepfakes can have devastating impacts on victims. Canadians, and especially our children, must be able to safely navigate online spaces.”…