A Minnesota prohibition on applications enabling users to "nudify" images is cleared to advance, irrespective of a legal challenge from xAI, as reported by NBC News.
U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank's decision heavily emphasized the timing of xAI's legal action, alongside the merits of the legislation itself. Judge Frank noted that xAI submitted its application for a temporary restraining order on "July 29, 2026, nearly three months after the law was signed, and only three days before the law is set to take effect" on August 1.
"Such a delay in bringing the action and the motion suggests that harm is not immediate," Judge Frank stated.
This development does not signify the conclusion of xAI's lawsuit challenging the prohibition; rather, it permits the law to be implemented while the legal proceedings continue. Within their suit, xAI contended that the ban — which represents the first of its nature in the United States — is "overinclusive" and that "there are far less restrictive alternatives that function to achieve the same ends."
Earlier this year, individuals utilizing Elon Musk's social media platform X (both X and xAI are now subsidiaries of SpaceX) reportedly leveraged xAI’s Grok chatbot to inundate the platform with non-consensual sexual imagery, prompting subsequent investigations and account suspensions.
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