Today, the courts rejected X.AI’s request for a temporary restraining order (TRO) that would have halted enforcement of Minnesota’s bipartisan, first-in-the-nation AI nudification ban. This ban was passed with near unanimous support in both the House and the Senate earlier this year – 197 lawmakers voted in favor of it and only 1 voted against it. The law challenged by X.AI bans the use of technology that generates fake nude images of real people.

“I am extremely proud to be defending this law, and along with it, the dignity of the people of Minnesota. Minnesota’s landmark law banning the use of nudification technology will go into effect tomorrow as planned. These nudification apps, including Grok Imagine, have been used to generate child sexual abuse materials and harass people in the vilest ways imaginable. That repulsive behavior is not welcome in Minnesota.” – AG Ellison