Grok's sexual deepfakes violated Canadian privacy law, says privacy commissioner

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The Canadian privacy commissioner says sexualized images created by the Grok chatbot and spread on the X social media platform violated Canadian privacy law." width="620" />

After launching an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexual deepfakes on X, Canada's privacy commissioner says Grok's AI image generation tool was launched without adequate safeguards and didn't properly consider harms to privacy.

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