Elon Musk’s xAI sues Minnesota over law banning ‘nudification’ technology
Elon Musk's xAI has filed a federal lawsuit challenging a Minnesota law that bans nudification technology — software that generates fake nude images of real people. The law, the first of its kind in the United States, was set to take effect days after the suit was filed.
Why this matters: Nudification tools exist almost entirely to harm people, mostly women and girls, without their consent. Minnesota tried to ban them outright. Now the company behind Grok is arguing in federal court that the state cannot do that. Whatever you think about AI regulation, this case will draw a line somewhere. Either states have room to ban tools built for non-consensual image abuse, or they do not. That is not a technical question. It is a question about who gets protected and who gets to keep building.
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