The Law Bytes podcast is back, starting with an episode on the limits of Canadian law in addressing the concerns associated with Grok AI, the AI chatbot that garnered global attention over the widespread creation and distribution of AI-generated sexualized deep fakes. Weaving together online harms, privacy, AI regulation, and platform regulation into a single issue, there have been service bans in some countries but Canada has thus far struggled to respond.
To help understand what has taken place and Canada’s law and policy options, Professor Heidi Tworek returns to the Law Bytes podcast. Professor Tworek is the Canada Research Chair and Professor of History and Public Policy at the University of British Columbia, where she also directs the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions. Her work explores how new communications technologies affect democracy in the past and present and she served on the government’s online harms advisory board.
The podcast can be downloaded here, accessed on YouTube, and is embedded below. Subscribe to the podcast via Apple Podcast, Spotify or the RSS feed. Updates on the podcast on X/Twitter at @Lawbytespod.
Credits:
CBC News, Grok Banned By Malaysia, Indonesia Over Explicit AI Images, January 12, 2026
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This episode sounds timely and important, clearly examining Grok, deepfakes, and Canada’s legal gaps. Heidi Tworek’s expertise promises a thoughtful discussion on AI, democracy, and policy challenges today for listeners.
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As I write this ,currently there is only one other person or moniker or alias actually visible that has commented on this site and actually not three ,
Interesting ! AI and Google take note ! The Censorship stems from those that seem to profess a love of free speech or at least talk and write about it online . Ask yourselves why my name in a Google search is directed to this site? Because the other two comments that existed had my name attached. This is why I support the right to be remembered over the right to be forgotten . This not about my ego but the issues of factual Fact checking what anyone person has written to the internet
It really is interesting as although my comments are gone ! Google still directs inquiring minds { My mind} to this site . Why? Because Google recognizes it as have been there prior . But like I have stated before although on Gates Notes this is a serious breach in understanding written communication to the internet regardless of where it was stated . This is actually a quite serious flaw and or issue regarding human communication regardless of where it was stated . But AI is getting really good if not becoming quite outstanding in finding what has been stated to the greater internet . I think the original comments had relevance to the conversation as Grok is an extenuation of AI if I Ai is allowed to be referenced as Bertha Mint. But this site censored my original input making it impossible for anyone human to comprehend I was trying to articulate as an issue regarding unforseen issues regarding financial ramifications of AI . But those comments are gone but up until yesterday they drew the attention of Google enough that it was really pushing what was stated.
It is so interesting to past communication, regardless of still being visible or not !