Regardless of a lawsuit from xAI, a Minnesota ban on apps that permit customers to “nudify” photographs can transfer ahead, according to NBC News.
U.S. District Choose Donovan Frank’s ruling centered as a lot on the timing of xAI’s lawsuit as on the substance of the regulation itself. Frank wrote that xAI filed its request for a brief restraining order “on July 29, 2026, almost three months after the regulation was signed, and solely three days earlier than the regulation is ready to take impact” on August 1.
“Such a delay in bringing the motion and the movement means that hurt just isn’t fast,” Frank mentioned.
This isn’t the tip of xAI’s lawsuit in opposition to the ban; it solely signifies that the regulation can take impact whereas the lawsuit proceeds. Within the go well with, xAI argued that the ban — the primary of its type in america — is “overinclusive” and that “there are far much less restrictive options that operate to attain the identical ends.”
Earlier this yr, customers of Elon Musk’s social media platform X (each X and xAI, are actually a part of SpaceX) used xAI’s Grok chatbot to flood the platform with non-consensual sexualized images, resulting in investigations and bans.
