Musk’s Grok AI Faces Probe by Canada Over Sexualized Deepfakes

Canada’s Privacy Commissioner joined the list of regulators expanding its investigations into Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence service, Grok, after the app was used to create non-consensual, explicit images of people.

The regulator said it’s broadening an investigation into social network X that it started last year. It’s also beginning to scrutinize xAI, the AI company responsible for the Grok chatbot that’s owned by the world’s richest man.

Canada’s X probe was announced last February after the commissioner received a complaint about the company’s compliance with privacy laws regarding its collection, use and sharing of personal information to train AI ...