Canada’s privacy commissioner says the Grok AI chatbot’s image generation feature violated the country’s privacy law. The watchdog’s findings focus on how the tool was launched and how it handles privacy risks. The commissioner says Grok was introduced without adequate safeguards and without properly accounting for potential harms related to privacy. The regulator’s position is that the company did not meet the requirements expected when deploying an AI system that can generate images, particularly where user data and other personal information could be involved. Reporting from multiple outlets describes the same core allegation: that the privacy protections were insufficient and that the safeguards needed to reduce privacy-related risks were not properly in place at launch. The watchdog’s announcement highlights the expectation that organizations assess and mitigate privacy impacts when rolling out AI capabilities that may affect individuals. The articles do not indicate that a criminal investigation is underway, but they characterize the commissioner’s action as a formal determination that the tool’s deployment did not comply with Canadian privacy obligations.