Elon Musk’s xAI, now owned by SpaceX, sued Keith Ellison, Attorney General of Minnesota State to challenge a law that would place a ban on so-called nudity apps.
In their complaints filed on Monday in a federal court in Minnesota, xAI attorneys wrote that the statute “imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression in a clumsy attempt to prohibit ‘nudification.’”
The Minnesota Law, which takes effect on Saturday, targets apps and website that provide people with the ability to generate non-consensual sexualized content, with a levy of $500,000 each time a user creates deepfakes.
The Law which was passed in April was led by Erin Maye Quade, Minnesota State Senator after she learned about a man that generated sexualized images and videos of of over 80 women he knew using their social media photos without their consent.
In their argument, lawyers of xAI pushed that the Law violates First Amendment protections and said the penalties are too excessive, potentially costing a business whose users created 100,000 prohibited images “an eye-popping $50 billion dollars.”
As the Artificial Intelligence (AI) business that it is now known, SpaceXAI, is battling a proposed class action lawsuit from plaintiffs who allege that the company’s Grok AI chatbot and image generator was used to generate and share child sexual abuse materials (CSAM) based on real photos or videos of them
Also, the suit alleges that xAI failed to disclose information with authorities about alleged perpetrators who used Grok to “nudify” their images.
In its argument, Musk’s Company pushed that, it “strictly prohibits” users from creating nude or sexualized images of people without their consent.
In its complaint in Minnesota, the Company noted it filed suit against users who “evade its extensive technological blockers to generate such images in violation.”
