Canada’s federal privacy commissioner is set to release findings Thursday on an investigation into sexual deepfakes generated by Elon Musk’s Grok AI and distributed across the X platform. Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne launched the probe in January to determine whether the companies violated national privacy laws by failing to obtain valid consent for the non-consensual use of personal data in explicit imagery.
The proliferation of these AI-generated images has sparked a coordinated regulatory response. Authorities in the United Kingdom, the European Union, and California have opened parallel investigations into the platforms' compliance and data handling practices.
Domestically, the Canadian government is advancing legislation that would explicitly criminalize the creation and distribution of non-consensual sexual deepfakes, signaling a hardening stance on AI-driven privacy violations.
