Minnesota Enforces $500,000 AI Nudification Ban as Judge Rejects xAI Bid to Block It
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Updated · Gizmodo · Aug 2
Minnesota Enforces $500,000 AI Nudification Ban as Judge Rejects xAI Bid to Block It
3 articles · Updated · Gizmodo · Aug 2
Summary
Saturday put Minnesota's new nudification ban into force after U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank refused xAI's last-minute request for a temporary restraining order.
The law lets victims sue app providers and imposes fines of up to $500,000 per violation, with additional exposure each time an altered image is accessed.
Judge Frank said xAI waited too long, filing on July 29—nearly three months after the law was signed and three days before it took effect—undercutting its claim of immediate harm.
xAI argues the statute is overly broad and could reach joke image generations, but Minnesota wrote it to target push-button alterations of recognizable people that expose intimate parts.
The fight follows backlash over Grok's sexualized image outputs, including an estimate that it generated 23,000 such images of children before X said those capabilities were curtailed.