xAI’s last-minute scramble to stop Minnesota’s anti-nudification app law
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- Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes , including images of minors .
- In another era, a content moderation disaster of this magnitude would have had the CEO flipping the kill switch on the product within hours.
- But in Elon Musk's brave new world, the … Read the full story at The Verge.
The story
xAI is suing Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison over a law passed back in May that broadly targets "nudification" apps, claiming that the statute's punitive provisions leave the company with "no practical choice but to restrict Grok Imagine's image-editing features in various ways." The law, the company argues, violates the First Amendment.
Back in January, Grok flooded the internet with millions of sexually explicit deepfakes, including images of minors. In another era, a content moderation disaster of this magnitude would have had the CEO flipping the kill switch on the product within hours. But in Elon Musk's brave new world, the …
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