The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals has suspended enforcement of Minnesota’s HF 1606 law, granting xAI temporary relief in its legal battle against this legislation targeting AI-generated nudification. Elon Musk’s company argues the statute violates the First Amendment by too broadly restricting protected speech, including art, parody, and consensual imagery. Passed 197-1, the law imposes civil penalties up to $500,000 per occurrence and prohibits generating intimate images without the depicted person’s consent. This appellate ruling reverses two lower court denials, which had cited xAI’s delay in filing its challenge.
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