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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Marc Levy and Barbara Ortutay

Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over its first-in-the-nation law banning 'nudification' technology

Minnesota Deepfakes Lawsuit - (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)

Elon Musk's company xAI has sued Minnesota over the state's first-in-the-nation law that bans “nudification” technology on websites and apps, potentially providing a test for how far states can go in constitutionally regulating the use of artificial intelligence.

Musk's company sued Monday in federal court, days before the law is set to take effect Saturday and make Minnesota the first state to try to outlaw the increasingly proliferating technology that lets people use AI to to create fake nude images of real people. The law was signed in May.

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