xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law
xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes, including images of minors. In another era,
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An AI company is suing a state attorney general over a law that prohibits "nudification" apps, claiming the law violates the First Amendment by being too broad. The lawsuit comes just days before the law is set to take effect, despite the law being passed months earlier. The context involves an AI chatbot that generated millions of sexually explicit deepfakes, including images of minors, prompting multiple governments to investigate and some states to pass restrictive legislation. The company argues that existing laws already address nonconsensual deepfakes and that the new statute imposes liability even for consensually created images or those with artistic merit, making it unconstitutionally overbroad.
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