{"id":5589,"date":"2026-07-29T21:06:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/xais-last-minute-scramble-to-stop-minnesotas-anti-nudification-app-law\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T21:06:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T21:06:52","slug":"xais-last-minute-scramble-to-stop-minnesotas-anti-nudification-app-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/xais-last-minute-scramble-to-stop-minnesotas-anti-nudification-app-law\/","title":{"rendered":"xAI\u2019s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota\u2019s anti-nudification app law"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Vector illustration of the Grok logo.\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: The Verge\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.theverge.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/05\/STK262_GROK_B_A.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=0,0,100,100\"><figcaption>\n\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/minnesota-gov-walz-sings-first-of-its-kind-law-to-stop-ai-being-used-for-csam\/ar-AA22DBIp\">law passed back in May<\/a> that broadly targets &#8220;nudification&#8221; apps, claiming that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.revisor.mn.gov\/bills\/94\/2025\/0\/HF\/1606\/\">the statute&#8217;s punitive provisions<\/a> leave the company with &#8220;no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine&#8217;s image-editing features in various ways.&#8221; The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/01\/22\/technology\/grok-x-ai-elon-musk-deepfakes.html\">millions of sexually explicit deepfakes<\/a>, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/855832\/grok-undressing-children-csam-law-x-elon-musk\">images of minors<\/a>. In another era, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/podcast\/865275\/grok-deepfake-undressing-elon-musk-content-moderation\">content moderation disaster<\/a> of this magnitude would have had the CEO flipping the kill switch on the product within hours. But in Elon Musk&#8217;s brave new world, the  \u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/policy\/972850\/xai-grok-minnesota-nudification-lawsuit\">Read the full story at The Verge.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets &#8220;nudification&#8221; apps, claiming that the statute&#8217;s punitive provisions leave the company with &#8220;no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine&#8217;s image-editing features in various ways.&#8221; The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment. Back in January, &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gundem"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rdgundem.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}