Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a lawsuit seeking to stop Minnesota from enforcing a new law targeting “nudification” apps and websites that can generate nonconsensual, sexually explicit imagery of real people. Multiple outlets report the challenge is aimed at a statute set to take effect in late summer, with some coverage citing an August 1 effective date. The law would impose large penalties on developers and operators, including fines described as up to $500,000 per unlawful access, download, or use, and one report says violations could be assessed for each generated image.
xAI argues the law is overly broad and vague, potentially exposing companies to liability even when the resulting images could be considered non-explicit or otherwise harmless. The company also contends the statute violates constitutional protections, including free speech rights. In response, Minnesota’s attorney general says he will defend the law in court. Reporting also notes that xAI says it would disable a related Grok feature for users in Minnesota while the case proceeds, and that Grok’s terms of service already prohibit “nudifying” real people in an intimate or sexual context.
