The District Court of Minnesota has rejected the efforts of Elon Musk’s xAI to seek an injunction to suspend the law until a court could hear its constitutional challenge to the law itself, according to a report by Reuters. Judge Donovan W. Frank, in his Conclusion, argued that “xAI has not demonstrated irreparable harm and the balance of harms tips steeply in favor of the State.”
The bill Musk is trying to fight was recently passed into law by Minnesota, becoming the nation’s first anti-nudification law. Companies found in violation of this law would be subject to fines of up to $500,000 every time artificial intelligence is used to alter images to depict the “intimate parts” of a person in such a way that “a reasonable person would believe that the intimate part belongs to the identifiable individual.”
Minnesota’s nudification ban takes effect after judge rejects xAI’s bid to pause it
xAI is alleging that the Minnesota bill is a First Amendment violation of not only itself, as a corporate entity, but also a violation of the rights of its users. That larger lawsuit has yet to go to trial, but Attorney General Keith Ellison has already given his unvarnished opinion: “I would argue that there is no First Amendment right to falsely exploit somebody’s image and make them appear naked.”
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