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Back|US court stops AI nude photo ban after lawsuit by xAI
US court stops AI nude photo ban after lawsuit by xAI
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US court stops AI nude photo ban after lawsuit by xAI

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  • A US appeals court has temporarily suspended Minnesota's first ban on AI-generated nude images after Elon Musk's xAI filed a lawsuit alleging it violated free speech.
  • The court followed xAI's request and suspended the law for the time being.

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Minnesota had enacted the first statewide ban on AI-generated nude images to combat the spread of abusive deepfakes, particularly those generated by AI products like Grok. xAI sued the law, arguing it violated freedom of speech under the U.S. Constitution.

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A US appeals court is temporarily suspending the first ban on AI nude images in the USA. The trigger was a lawsuit from Elon Musk's AI company xAI. The company cites freedom of expression.

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.

Musk's AI company argued the law was unconstitutional because it limited freedom of speech protected by the U.S. 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.

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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."

xAI, however, stated that the product contains “strict safeguards” against the creation of such images of real people. The company has begun suing users who circumvent its technological protections.

Several countries are currently investigating measures against xAIs Grok. The European Commission announced an investigation in January. There are concerns that Grok could distribute illegal content, including manipulated images. 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 US Court of Appeals will ultimately strike down Minnesota's AI nudity law as unconstitutional.

    Possible · Within months

  • xAI will take legal action against users who circumvent Grok's protections to create deepfakes of real people.

    Likely · Within weeks

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  • ?How will the appeals court ultimately rule on the constitutionality of the Minnesota law?
  • ?What specific safeguards has xAI implemented in Grok to prevent the creation of deepfakes of real people?
  • ?What legal action will the European Commission and other authorities take against xAI and Grok?

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