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Minnesota law prohibits the creation of AI-generated fake nude images of identifiable people. xAI argues that it violates freedom of expression. Lower courts had previously rejected the request.
Elon Musk's AI company xAI won a preliminary injunction in a US appeals court on Friday against a Minnesota state law that bans the creation of AI-generated fake nude images. The appeals court in St. Louis temporarily suspended the law with its decision, thereby granting a request from xAI.
Elon Musk's AI company argued the law was unconstitutional because it restricted freedom of speech protected by the US Constitution. The law, the first of its kind in the country, prohibits website operators and software developers from allowing users to create realistic images that show intimate body parts of an identifiable person that cannot be seen in an original photograph.
A lower court rejected the technology company's application last month. The US state of Minnesota had asked the court not to suspend the law. It aims to combat the spread of child sexual abuse material generated by AI products like Musk's Grok Imagine on a "staggering scale."
The Irish Data Protection Commission opened a formal investigation into Grok in February. A few days later, French police searched X's offices as part of a separate investigation. Great Britain and Canada also want to take action against sexual images and deepfakes generated with the help of Grok.
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The litigation is expected to go to a higher court, possibly up to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Elon Musk's AI company xAI has won a preliminary injunction in a US appeals court against a Minnesota law banning AI-generated fake nude images. The court suspended the law for the time being because it was believed to violate freedom of expression.
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