Elon Musk’s xAI has filed a federal lawsuit challenging Minnesota’s first-in-the-nation law banning AI “nudification” technology, which creates fake nude images of real people without their consent. While Musk and his company claim to support preventing the non-consensual distribution of AI-generated intimate images, they argue that the law is overly broad and unconstitutional because it has the potential to restrict protected speech and consensual content. Minnesota’s Attorney General Keith Ellison defends the law as a necessary response to the significant emotional, personal, and professional harms caused by AI-generated sexual deepfakes. This case, the first of its kind, will be an important test of the power of individual states to regulate AI tools moving forward.
Elon Musk and his Defense of AI-Generated Nudes
