xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law
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xAI is suing Minnesota for a law targeting "nudification" apps, arguing it violates the First Amendment and forces restrictions on its Grok Imagine image-editing features. The company highlights the law's punitive provisions as problematic, especially following controversies involving explicit deepfakes created by Grok earlier this year.
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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, a content moderat
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