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Amanda Caswell

Researchers tracked 821 deepfake attacks — Elon Musk's Grok was linked to most of them

Elon Musk.

Elon Musk's Grok AI accounted for 87% of AI-generated files connected to deepfake attacks during the first half of 2026, according to a new report from Resemble AI.

Researchers examined 1,760 news reports and identified 821 separate attacks involving at least 15,736 documented victims. Together, those incidents included approximately 3.46 million synthetic images, videos and audio files. Resemble AI’s dataset is based on publicly reported incidents, and its percentage applies only to files that researchers could count and attribute to a particular tool.

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