Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology
xAI, Elon Musk's AI company, filed a federal lawsuit against Minnesota to block a new state law that would ban nudification technology — tools that generate fake nude images of real people. The law, the first of its kind in the country, was set to take effect days after the suit was filed.
Why this matters: Nudification tools are used to harass and humiliate people, mostly women and girls. Minnesota tried to do something about that. Now the company being sued to stop the law is owned by one of the most powerful people in the world. That is worth sitting with. The legal question is real — states do have limits on how they can regulate online platforms and AI tools. But the practical question is simpler: if states cannot ban software designed to generate fake nude images of real people without consent, then who can, and when?
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