It reads like the kind of thing that, just a few years ago, would have been unbelievable. But on Elon Musk’s social platform X, formerly known as Twitter, the AI chatbot Grok built into the site is being used to pump out deepfake non-consensual intimate images and even child sexual abuse material (CSAM). In response to international outcry, Musk limited Grok’s ability to create sexualized deepfakes — including sexualized deepfakes of children — to paid subscribers. In other words, the world’s richest man is quite literally profiting off of the generation of CSAM and other non-consensual intimate images — including one of the mothers of his own children.
It took the Canadian government over a week to release a statement on the issue. AI and Digital Innovation Minister Evan Solomon said Canada was going to criminalize sexualized deepfakes, making no mention of Musk, Grok or X.
