Elon Musk's xAI sues to stop Minnesota law banning nudification technology
CBS News • • nation
Key Points:
- Elon Musk's AI company, xAI, is suing Minnesota over a new law banning apps and websites that create fake, sexualized images of individuals, arguing it violates the First Amendment by imposing an overbroad content-based ban on free speech.
- The Minnesota law, HF 1606, signed by Gov. Tim Walz, prohibits "nudification" technology and allows victims and the attorney general to take legal action against companies behind such AI, effective August.
- xAI contends the law holds AI providers strictly liable regardless of user consent or the image's artistic or educational value, and criticizes the law's broad definition of "intimate part," which includes non-nude depictions like men without shirts or people in swimsuits.
- Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison condemned AI-generated non-consensual nude images as harmful, while Musk's company seeks a court ruling to declare the law unconstitutional and block its enforcement.
- Gov. Walz responded to the lawsuit with a defiant tweet, signaling the state’s intent to defend the law in court.
