xAI says the First Amendment protects the right to build ‘nudify’ tools
xAI has a novel argument for why it should get to keep building tools that digitally undress people. The First Amendment.
Elon Musk’s AI company, now owned by SpaceX, sued Minnesota’s attorney general on Monday, CBS News first reported. It wants a federal court to strike down the first US law banning “nudification” technology. The law takes effect on Saturday.
The law
Minnesota’s HF 1606 bars any site or app from letting users “nudify” a real, identifiable person. That means generating a realistic fake showing intimate parts they never exposed. It also bans advertising such tools.
Each violation can draw a civil penalty of up to $500,000. The money funds services for victims of sexual assault and abuse. State Senator Erin Maye Quade drove the bill, after a man used social-media photos to make sexual images of more than 80 women he knew.
xAI’s case
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