{"id":49056,"topic":"ai","source":"Valley News Live","title":"Elon Musk’s X.AI sues to block Minnesota’s AI nudification ban, calling it a ‘ban on free speech’ - Valley News Live","url":"https://www.valleynewslive.com/2026/07/29/elon-musks-xai-sues-block-minnesotas-ai-nudification-ban-calling-it-ban-free-speech/","url_hash":"566af325db57cd098a727e7755a2d3caac7999d8","author":"","summary":"<a href=\"https://news.google.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?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">Elon Musk’s X.AI sues to block Minnesota’s AI nudification ban, calling it a ‘ban on free speech’</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">Valley News Live</font>","content":"MINNEAPOLIS (KARE 11) - Minnesota’s ban on using AI to create realistic sexual images of people without their consent is being challenged in court.\nElon Musk’s X.AI filed a lawsuit over the weekend against Attorney General Keith Ellison, arguing the Minnesota law “imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression in a clumsy attempt to prohibit ‘nudification.’”\nLawmakers passed a bill in May to prevent nudification. 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Companies that make this technology available for free online and in app stores will no longer be allowed to enable predators who abuse and victimize adults and children with the click of a button.”\nBut the X.AI lawsuit argues that its service already strictly prohibits nudification, and that the Minnesota statute exposes “a wide array of protected speech to civil liability and government sanctions.” It also argues that with the way the Minnesota statute is written, an AI image of a man without his shirt on would fit under the definition of depicting an “intimate part.”\n“There is no safe harbor for good-faith efforts of the provider of general-purpose AI creative tools to avoid harms,” the lawsuit states. “Liability attaches even if the depicted persons consented—or created the image themselves—and even if the image is never shared. Liability also attaches even if the image has artistic, scientific, political, satirical, educational, medical, or religious value, and (again) even if the company has deployed near-perfect, state-of-the-art technical controls to prevent the generation of nude images.”\nRep. Jess Hanson (DFL–Burnsville), who authored the House version of the bill, called the lawsuit “absolutely disgusting.”\n“I look forward to hearing Elon Musk trying to explain to the public exactly the redeeming qualities he thinks nudification has and why it’s important for him to undermine these critical protections,” Rep. Hanson said in a statement. ”In court, Minnesota Attorney General Ellison is going to fight like hell to uphold this new law. As Minnesotans, we’re going to stand together to protect children and women from being exploited for profit by the richest man in the world, billionaires, and tech giants.”\nCopyright 2026 KVLY. 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