A Minnesota ban on apps that allow users to 'nudify' images can move forward, after a federal judge denied xAI's request to block it.
U.S. District Judge Donovan Frank's ruling focused on the timing of xAI's lawsuit. He wrote that xAI filed its request for a temporary restraining order on July 29, 2026, nearly three months after the law was signed and only three days before it was set to take effect on August 1. 'Such a delay in bringing the action and the motion suggests that harm is not immediate,' Frank said.
The ruling does not end xAI's lawsuit; it only means the law can take effect while the case proceeds. In its suit, xAI argued the ban — the first of its kind in the United States — is 'overinclusive' and that 'there are far less restrictive alternatives that function to achieve the same ends.'
Earlier this year, users of Elon Musk's social media platform X used xAI's Grok chatbot to flood the platform with non-consensual sexual images, leading to investigations and bans.