BusinessAfter 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.Investigation launched in January looked at proliferation of sexual deepfakes on social media platform XAnja Karadeglija · The Canadian Press · Posted: Jun 11, 2026 10:57 AM EDT | Last Updated: 1 hour agoListen to this articleEstimated 1 minuteThe audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology. Mispronunciations can occur. We are working with our partners to continually review and improve the results.Logos for xAI and Grok are seen in this illustration. Canada's privacy commissioner says sexualized images created by the Grok chatbot and spread on the X social media platform violated the country's privacy law. (Dado Ruvic/Reuters)The federal privacy commissioner says sexual deepfakes created by Elon Musk's Grok AI chatbot violated Canada's privacy law.The watchdog says Grok's AI image generation tool was launched without adequate safeguards and didn't properly consider harms to privacy.The commissioner launched an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and shared on the X social media platform.The privacy commissioner says Grok was being used to generate millions of sexualized deepfakes.Musk's xAI adds new restrictions to Grok after uproar over sexual imagesSexual deepfakes on X show need for Canadian online regulator, advocates sayThe investigation looked at whether the companies involved are complying with privacy law and whether they obtained "valid consent" to collect, use and disclose personal information to create deepfakes, including explicit content.The wave of images drew a global backlash, with the U.K., the European Union and California launching investigations of their own.