Minnesota's first-in-the-nation ban on AI-generated fake nude images will remain in effect as a constitutional challenge by Elon Musk's xAI proceeds, after a federal judge on Friday declined to block the law at an early stage of the case.
Musk's xAI company argues the measure restricts free speech protected by the US Constitution, while Minnesota says the law is narrowly tailored to curb the spread of nonconsensual sexual imagery created with artificial intelligence.
