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US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning "nudify" apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect (NBC News)
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The ruling allows the Minnesota law to take effect, establishing a precedent for state-level regulation of AI-generated nonconsensual nude imagery. For engineers building or operating AI tools with image-generation capabilities, this signals that compliance with emerging state laws around deepfake and nudify content is now a concrete requirement, not just a policy debate.
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A federal judge refused xAI's request to halt Minnesota's law banning nudify apps, noting the filing came just three days before the law was set to take effect.
The Minnesota law is described as the first-in-the-nation statute targeting nudify applications specifically.
The law went into effect on Saturday following the judge's decision.
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